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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IX KÂNDA, I ADHYAYA, I BRÂHMANA, 16. 159
high is, as it were, the middle ; and the middle, as it were, is the air-world: he thus gratifies those Rudras who entered the air-world.
13. Then on the one reaching up to the mouth, what reaches up to the mouth is, as it were, above, and above, as it were, is yonder world: he thus gratifies those Rudras who entered yonder world. [He does so] with Svâhâ,--the Svâhâ is food : with food he thus gratifies them.
14. [He offers, with, Vâg. S. XVI, 1], 'Reverence, o Rudra, be to thy wrath !' he thereby does reverence to that wrath which remained extended within him ;-'And to thine arrow be reverence, and to both thine arms be reverence!' for it was by his arrow and his arms that he was inspiring fear.
15. That god who became the hundred-headed (Rudra) is the chief (kshatra'), and those others who originated from the drops are the peasants (clansmen): those peasants in the first place assigned to that chief this as his special share, to wit, this first chapter of formulas ?, and gratified him thereby. And in like manner does this (Sacrificer) now assign this to him as his special fore-share, and gratify him thereby. Hence this (section) is addressed to a single deity, to Rudra; for it is him he thereby gratifies.
16. There are here fourteen formulas,-thirteen months are a year, and Pragàpati is the fourteenth;
Literally, the ruling power. . The first anuvâka of kanda XVI of the Vâg. S. consists of sixteen verses; which of these the fourteen referred to in the next paragraph are is not clear to me.
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