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
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X KÂnda, 2 ADHYÂYA, 6 BRÂHMANA, I.
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shthas ', and at that (sacrifice) he should give away all his property 2 ; for the Visvagit (all-conquering) Atirâtra with all the Prishthas means everything, and all one's property means everything, and the one hundred and one-fold (altar) means everything : by means of everything he thus gains everything.
Sixth BRÂHMANA.
1. The one hundred and one-fold Pragâ pati, doubtless, is the year, and thereto belong days and
Tândya-Br. XVI, 5, I seq. It is closely united with the Abhigit Soma-day-the stotras of which are performed in four stomas, viz. three in each of those used for the Visvagit, and the last three in the ekavimsa, or twenty-one-versed, stoma— with which it may, indeed, be combined in one and the same performance; and both form part of the sacrificial session called Gavâm ayanam (part ii, p. 427). The Visvagit (as well as the Abhigit) may, however, also be performed as an Atirâtra instead of Agnishtoma, and in that case the sequence of Slomas is entirely different, their order being as follows: the first four stotras are performed in the first four stomas (trivrit, panikadasa, saptadasa, ekavimsa); the next four stotras in the four stomas beginning with the second stoma (up to trinava), and the next four stotras in the four stomas beginning with the third stoma (up to trayastrimsa). Of the three Ukthastotras, the first is performed in the trinava, and the two others in the ekavimsa; the Shodasin in its own (ekavimsa) form; the night-chants in the pankadasa; and the twilight-chant in the trivrit-stoma. See Tândya-Br. XX, 9.
1 On sarvaprish/ha' Soma-days, see part iii, introduction, pp. xx seq.
* As an equivalent for one's' whole property (sarvavedasa, sarvasva), Kâtyâyana (XXII, 2, 26.27) enumerates 'cows, oxen, ploughs, sacks of corn (or corn-sacks), pairs of slaves, waggons, animals for riding, houses (or sheds), and couches.' For other similar enumerations, see A. Weber, Omina and Portenta (Abb. of Berl. Acad. 1858), p. 398.
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