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, 3 ADHYAYA, 4 BRAHMANA, 2.
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thirty-five which follow are the Vasa (hymn); and by the eighties (of verses) which follow those eighties (of the mahad uktham) are obtained, for by eighties the Great Litany is counted; and what there is after the eighties, that to him (corresponds to) what, in the Great Litany, there is after the eighties"; and thus this shower of wealth of his attains to (conformity with) the Great Litany, and corresponds to the Great Litany.
Fourth BRÂHMANA. 1. He then offers the Vâgaprasaviya? (set of fourteen libations),-' vâga' (strength, sustenance) means food (anna): it thus is an 'anna-prasaviya' for him, and it is food he thereby raises (pra-sa) for him (Agni).
2. For the gods, now that they had gratified him by that food, and consecrated him by those objects of desire, (to wit) by that stream of wealth, hereby gratified him once more; and in like manner does this (Sacrificer), now that he has gratified him by that food, and consecrated him by those objects of desire, that shower of wealth, hereby gratify him once more.
See pp. 110, note 3 ; 112, n. I; 113, n. I. ? That is, oblations capable of promoting or quickening strength (or food,- våga); see part iii, p. 37 (where read Vâgaprasavîya). While the formulas of the first seven of these oblations are the same as those used for those of the Vâgapeya (see V, 2, 2, 5-11), the formulas of the last seven of these oblations are Vâg. S. XVIII, 30-36 (for the first of which, being the same as IX, 5, see VI, 1, 4, 4).
* This seems to be in apposition to both that food,' and those objects of desire.'
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