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 KÂNDA, 3 ADHYAYA, I BRÂHMANA, 11.
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thee,' for Visvakarman saw this third layer ;-'on the back of the air, thee the wide, the broad one!' for this (brick) indeed is the wide and broad back of the air ;-'support thou the air, make fast the air, injure not the air!' that is, 'support thou thine own self (body), make fast thine own self, injure not thine own self!'
10. 'For all up-breathing, and down-breathing, and through-breathing, and out-breathing!' for the naturally-perforated (brick) is the vital air, and the vital air serves for everything here ;– for a resting-place and moving-place!' for the naturally-perforated (brick) is these worlds, and these worlds are indeed a resting-place and a movingplace;—May Vayu shelter thee!' that is, 'May Vâyu protect thee!'-'with grand prosperity!' that is, with great prosperity;'-'with most auspicious protection!'-that is, 'with what protection is most auspicious.' Having settled it?, he pronounces the Sudadohas 2 over it; the meaning of this has been explained. He then sings a sâman : the meaning of this (will be explained) further ons.
11. He then lays down (five) Disyâ (regional bricks) 4. Now the regional ones, doubtless, are
1 Viz. by the concluding formula, With the help of that deity, Angiras-like, lie thou steady l' see part iii, p. 301, note 3.
2 Viz. Vâg. S. XII, 55 (Rig-veda S. VIII, 69, 3), 'At his birth the well-like milking, speckled ones mix the Soma, the clans of the gods in the three spheres of the heavens.' See part in, P 307, note 2.
3 VIII, 7, 4, I seq.
4 The five Disyâs are placed on the spines in the four directions at the retahsik range, just over where the five Vaisvadevi bricks were placed in the second layer (see the sketch, p. 24). Between them and the central (naturally-perforated) brick there is thus an