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.
12. And, again, as to why he lays down the Nakasad-Pañkakûdâs ;—it is for the sake of completeness; for the Nâkasads are the self, and the Pañkakûdâs the mate, and this, the mate, doubtless, is one half of the self; for when one is with his mate, then he is whole and complete.
13. And, again, as to why he lays down the Nâkasad-Pañkakûdâs ;-the Nâkasads are the self, and the Pañkakûdâs are offspring (or subjects) 2. Now progeny is something additional to the self, and whatever is additional is an excrescence; and hence, as they are five additional ones, they are (called) Paskakudas.
14. And, again, as to why he lays down the Nakasad-Paskakûdâs;—the Nâkasads are the regions, and the Pañkakûdâs, too, are the regions : what five regions there are on this side of yonder sun, they are the Nâkasads, and those which are on the other side are the Pankakûdâs. Now those regions which are on the other side of yonder sun are additional, and what is additional is an excrescence (kuda): and hence, as they are five additional ones, they are called Pañkakûdâs.
15. And, again, as to why he lays down the Pañkakûdâs. Now, at that time the gods were afraid lest the fiends, the Rakshas, should destroy
being placed on the top of the Nâkasads, are themselves here represented as something additional. Such, at any rate, seems to be the definition of the term given in the text above and in parag. 13. The MS. of the commentary reads, kâyasya vai tat pâvargitam (0) sa kadah kesapuñgah.'
1 This, doubtless, is here the meaning of mithunam; and similarly in I, 7, 2, II, we ought to translate, The vashatkâra is the mate of those two (anuvâkyâ and yâgyà)."
* See paragraph 21.