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

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________________ 500 SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA. navel) with its point towards the east: a belly he thus gives to it. On the two sides thereof the two milking-bowls (pinvana): two testicles he thereby gives to it, for by means of his testicles the male overflows (pinv). Behind (them he places) the post and peg: whereby he gives two thighs to it; behind (them) the two Rauhinaplates, whereby he gives two knees to it; and as to their being single plates, it is because these knees consist, as it were, of single plates (bones). Behind (them) the two poking-sticks (dhrishti), whereby he gives two feet to it, for with the feet one strikes out boldly (dhrishtam). On the left side the two mounds 1 used in the performance, for there is their place of rest; on the right side the Mârgåltya ?, for there is its place of rest. 23. He then pours milk into that (chief pot), with (Vāg. S. XXXVIII, 21), 'This, O Gharma, is the contents of thy bowels,'—the contents of the bowels being food, it is food he thus puts into it;— Grow thou, and fill out thereby!'in this there is nothing hidden, so to speak ;'and may we ourselves grow, and fill out!'-it is a blessing he thereby invokes. 24. Let him not pour in all (the milk), lest the food should turn away from the Sacrificer.-He leaves over half of it or more; and on that same afternoon he pours it to the fast-milk, and hands it to the Sacrificer: thereby he bestows food upon · That is, the sand used for them, and brought thither in vessels. That is, the sand of the mound of remains' (ukkhishtakhara), see p. 489, note 3. Digitized by Google

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