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-BRÂHMANA.
sacrifice, wealth with offspring!' as the text so the sense.
13. This one he lays down with its line-marks running eastward and crosswise?; for by that one Pragâpati then cut out the root of evil, and in like manner does this (Sacrificer) now thereby cut out the root of evil. On the right (south) side (from the centre he places it), for the thunderbolt has a string 2 on the right side ;-inside the one in the southern quarter, for it is for the sake of extension that he leaves that space.
14. The one which (lies) in front is the outbreathing, the one at the back the off-breathing : by the out-breathing he (Pragâpati) then drove away evil in front, and by the off-breathing in the rear; and in like manner does the Sacrificer now by the out-breathing drive away evil in front, and by the off-breathing in the rear.
15. And the two on both sides (of the spine) are the two arms: whatever evil there was sidleways of him, that he drove away with his arms; and in like manner does this Sacrificer now drive away with his arms whatever evil there is sideways of him.
That is to say, ciosswise, or marked in the opposite direction to the Asapatnâ brick near it, viz to the one placed cast of the southern end of the cross-spine which (like all bricks placed between shoulder and thigh) has its line-marks running from south to north. The fifth Asapatna, lying immediately north of that southern one, thus has its line-marks parallel, not (as one would expect) to the cross-spine, but to the further removed spine.
9 This is a doubtful rendering of.udyâma,' which is accepted by the St. Petersb. Dict. for 'shad-udyâma,' at VI, 7, 1, 16, 18; whilst in the present case dakshinata-udyâma' seems to be taken by it to mean 'southward erected, southward drawn (aufgespannt).' Udyâma, in the sense extension,' might mean a protruding part, serving as a handle,