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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VIII KANDA, I ADHYAYA, 2 BRAHMANA, 4. 9
the Sukra,'-from out of the Riksama-sâman he fashioned the Sukra-graha ;- from the Sukra the Saptada sa,'-from out of the Sukra cup he fashioned the seventeen-versed hymn-form;-' from the Saptadasa the Vairûpa,'-from out of the Saptadasa-stoma he fashioned the Vairûpa-prishtha.
3. The Rishi Gamadagni,'-the Rishi Gamadagni, doubtless, is the eye: inasmuch as thereby the world of the living (gagat) sees and thinks, therefore the Rishi Gamadagni is the eye.-'By thee, taken by. Pragâpati,'-that is, 'by thee, created by Pragâpati,'I take the eye for my descendants,' therewith he introduced the eye from behind. Separately he lays down (these ten bricks): what separate desires there are in the eye those he thereby lays into it. Only once he settles them he thereby makes this eye one; but were he to settle them each separately, he assuredly would eye asunder. This is a threefold brick: the meaning of this has been explained.
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4 And on the left (upper, north) side, with (Vâg. S. XIII, 57), 'This, on the upper side, heaven,' -in the upper sphere, doubtless, are the regions (quarters); and as to why he speaks of them as being on the upper (left) side,' the regions, indeed,
hardly any modifications on the original verses (Sâma-v, vol. 11, P 278), even less so indeed than the simple Vairûpa-sâman (Sama-v, vol 1, p 572), and possibly 'riksama' (if it does not apply to a whole class of sâmans) may be another name for the Vairûpa (of which there are two other forms, Sâma-v., vol. 1, pp. 425, 438) in its simplest form. The Vairûpa, in its prishtha form, would in that case, indeed, have originated from the Raksama-sâman. It is true, however, that there is no special connection between the other Prishtha-sâmans and the respective hymn-tune with which they are symbolically connected in the foregoing formulas.