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, 2 ADHYAYA, I BRAHMANA, 8. 183
Soma-sacrifice, but this one belongs to the fire-altar; this he now offers.
6. On that (former) occasion he makes the libation whilst looking at the gold; for distinct is what one sees, and distinct was that high-altar; and thrown down', indeed, are (the gold chips) on this occasion, and indistinct is what is thrown down, and indistinct is this high-altar.
7. With the Svâhâ-call he makes the libation on that (high-altar), for distinct (manifest) is the Svâhâ, and distinct is that high-altar; but with the Vet-call (he offers) on this (brick), for indistinct is the Vet-call, and indistinct is this high-altar. With ghee (they offer), for with ghee they offer on the high-altar ;-with fivefold-taken (ghee), for with fivefold-taken (ghee) they offer on the high-altar;— by turns (he makes the libations), for by turns 2 they make the libations on the high-altar.
8. [He offers, with, Vâg. S. XVII, 12, a-c resp.], 'To the man-seated, vet!'-the man-seated one, doubtless, is the breath, and men mean human beings: he thereby gratifies that fire (or Agni), the breath, which is in human beings;-'To the waterseated, vet!'-he thereby gratifies the fire which is in the waters;-'To the barhis-seated, vet!'-he
uttara-vedi being preparatory to the leading forward of the fire to the high-altar.
1 Each time he has poured out some of the ghee on one of the corners, or in the centre, of the stone; he throws one of the chips of gold thereon, without looking at it.
That libation was made crosswise-first on the right shoulder, then on the left thigh, then on the right thigh, then on the left shoulder, and finally in the centre, of the (navel of the) highaltar. In the same way he offers crosswise on the svayamâtrinnâ brick.
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