Book Title: Satapatha Bramhana Part 03
Author(s): Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford

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________________ XIV KÂNDA, 2 ADHYAYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, 49. 491 perform it for all the Sacrificer's) property; for all one's property means everything, and this (Pravargya) is everything. One may perform it at a Visvagit with all the Prishthas '; for the Visvagit (all-conquering day) with all the Prishthas means everything, and this (Pravargya) is everything. One may perform it at the Vågapeya (and) Rågasûya, for such a ceremony) means everything. One may perform it at a sacrificial session, for the session means everything, and this (Pravargya) is everything. These are (the occasions for) his performances of the Pravargya, and (let him perform it) nowhere else but at these. 48. Here now they say, Seeing that the Pravargya is headless, whereby, then, does the Agnihotra become possessed of a head for him ?' Let him say, "By the Ahavaniya.'—How the New and Full-moon sacrifices ?' Let him say, 'By the ghee and the cake.'— How the Seasonal sacrifices ?' Let him say, “By the oblation of clotted curds ??— How the animal sacrifice ?' Let him say, ' By the victim and the cake.'-'How the Somasacrifice ?' Let him say, 'By the Havirdhầna $.' 49. And they also say,—when the sacrifice had its head cut off, the gods on that occasion restored it as the hospitable reception * (of King Soma), and verily for him who so knows this offering is not made with any headless sacrifice whatever. " See p. 139, note 1 ; and XII, 3, 3, 6. . For the ‘payasya' see part i, p. 178, note 4; p. 381, note 3. $ That is, the cart or carts on which the offering-material (including the Soma-plants) is contained, as also the shed in which they are placed. • See III, 2, 3, 20; 4, 1, 1. Digitized by Google

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