Satapatha Brahmana

SR No.: 011120
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller, Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1987
Total Pages: 433
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
there are ten fingers, ten toes, and nine vital airs : it is with these they then sang praises ;-'the trees were created,'--the trees indeed were now created;
--Soma was the lord,'-Soma indeed was now the lord.
18. With thirty-one they sang praises,'there are ten fingers, ten toes, ten vital airs, and the trunk is the thirty-first: it is therewith they then sang praises ;-'the creatures were created,'the creatures indeed were now created;- 'the Yavas and Ayavas were the lords, the bright and dark fortnights indeed were now the lords.
19. 'With thirty-three they sang praises,'there are ten fingers, ten toes, ten vital airs, two feet, and the trunk is the thirty-third : it is therewith they then sang praises ;-'the living beings lay quiet,'—all living beings now indeed lay quiet;
Pragâ pati, the supreme, was the lord!'Pragâpati, the supreme, indeed was now the lord.
20. These, then, are seventeen bricks he lays down,--the year, Pragâpati, is seventcenfold, he is the progenitor: it is thus by this seventeenfoldl year, by Pragậpati, the progenitor, that he caused these creatures to be generated. And what he generated, he created; and inasmuch as he created (srig), therefore they are called creations (srishti). Having created them, he made them enter his own self: and in like manner does the Sacrificer now cause these creatures to be generated by that seventeenfold year, by Pragậpati, the progenitor; and having created them, he makes them enter his own self'. On the
That is, he makes them pass into his own power, makes them his own.