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.
FIFTH BRÂHMANA. 1. Verily, there was nothing here in the beginning: by Death this (universe) was covered, by hunger, for Death is hunger. He created for himself this mind, thinking, “May I have a soul.' He went on worshipping. Whilst he was worshipping the waters were produced. “Verily, to me worshipping (ark) water (kam) has been produced,' thus (he thought): this, indeed, is the Arka-nature of the Arkya?; and, verily, there is joy (kam) for him who thus knows the Arka-nature of the Arkya.
2. The Arka, doubtless, is the waters; and the cream (froth) which was on the waters was compacted, and became this earth. Thereon he wearied himself, and the glow and essence (sweat) of him thus wearied and heated developed into Fire.
3. He made himself threefold-(Agni being onethird), Aditya one-third, and Vậyu one-third : that is this threefold breath. The eastern quarter was his head, this and that intermediate quarters) are his fore-feet, the western quarter his tail, this and that intermediate quarters) his thighs, the southern and northern quarters his flanks; the sky his back, the air his belly, and this (earth) his chest on the waters he was established any and everywhere, and so indeed is he established who knows this.
4. He desired, “May a second self be produced for me.' By his mind he entered into union with speech,-(to wit) Death with hunger : the seed which was produced became the year, for theretofore there was no year. For as long as the year he (Death) carried him (within him), and at the end of
1 See X, 3, 4, 3 seq.; 4, 1, 4. 15. 21 seq.