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,
25. 'The revolving sphere, the Ashtû katvarimsa!'he therewith lays down that hymn-form which is forty-eight-fold. But the revolving sphere, the forty-eight-fold, doubtless, is the year : in it there are twenty-six half-months, thirtcen months, seven seasons, and the two, day and night. And as to his calling it the revolving sphere,' from the year all creatures indeed are evolved: it is that form he now lays down.
26. “The stay, the Katushtoma!'he therewith lays down the chant of praise consisting of four stomas? And as to his calling it the stay,'-stay means support, and the Katushtoma is a support.
But the stay, the Katushitoma, doubtless, is Väyu (the • wind), for hc sings from all those four quarters. And as to his calling him the stay, stay means support; and the wind indeed is the support of all beings: it is that form he now lays down. The wind he places first and last: by the wind he thus encloses all these beings on both sides.
27. These, then, are eighteen bricks he lays down; this makes two Trivrits,--the Trivrit being breath, and breath being wind, this layer is Vâyu.
28. And as to why there are eighteen,--the year is eighteenfold: twelve months and six scasons, And Pragậpati indeed is the year, Praçapati is eighteenfold: as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, so great he makes it when he lays it down.
Second BRÂIIMANA. 1. He then lays down the Spritah” (freeing
For particulars on the Katushtoma, sce note on XIII, 1, 3, 4. % The ten Spritah are placed in close connection with the preceding set;-viz. at the front and back ends of the spine, two