Questions of King Milinda Part 01

SR No.: 007681
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1890
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
then his path does become black. With a trishtubh verse he lays it down, because Vâyu (the wind) is of trishtubh nature; with one relating to Agni, because it is Agni's performance; with an undefined one, because Vâyu is undefined. And as to his saying the wind,' Vâyu indeed is the wind.
13. He then lays down the Svayamåtrinnå, with (Vag. S. XV, 63), 'I seat thee in the seat of the vital power,'—the vital power, doubtless, is yonder (sun), and his seat this is ;-'the animating,'—for he (the sun) aninates all this universe ;-'in the shadow,'--for in his shadow all this universe is ;‘in the heart of the sea,'— for this, indeed, is the heart of the (aerial) sea ? ;-'the radiant, the luminous,'—for radiant and luminous is the sky; 'thou that illumines the sky, the earth and the wide air;'--for thus, indeed, does he (the sun) illumine these worlds.
14. May Parameshthin settle thee,' -- for Parameshthin saw this fifth layer 2.
15. And, again, as to why he lays it down by means of Parameshthin. When Pragâ pati had become disjointed, the deities took him and went off in different directions. Parameshthin took his head, and kept going away from him.
16. He spake to him, 'Come to me and restore unto me that wherewith thou hast gone from me!' - What will therefrom accrue to me?'-'That part of my body shall be sacred to thee!'—'So be it!' So Parameshthin restored that to him.
17. Now that last self-perforated (brick) is just
· The topmost naturally-perforated brick represents the heavens. . See VI, 2, 3, 5; 10.
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