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Mahâvrata, IV, introd. xxv seq.; 110, 168; the last day (before concluding day) of Gavâm ayanam, and formerly one of the three great rites of the Sattra, V, (139), 144, 167. Mahâvrata-sâman, in bird's shape, IV, introd. xxvi, 110; an ocean of sâmans, 278; not to be chanted for another, 279, 367; fire-altar, Mahâvrata and Mahad uktham are the Sacrificer's divine, immortal body, 279; thereby the Udgâtri puts Pragâpati's vital fluid into the Soma-cup, 282; is equivalent to all (other) sâmans, 283; composition of (Gâyatra, Rathantara, Brihat, Bhadra, and Ragana-sâmans), 282, 283; is a bird-like body, 286; is the air, breath, 286; the vrata of the great one (Agni), 342; thereby the Udgâtri puts flavour into the Mahâvratiya cup, 346; is the light of the sun, 366. mahâvratîya-graha, IV, introd. xxvi,
282; by offering it, the Adhvaryu puts the vital fluid into Pragâpati, 284; is Pragâpati's food, 346; is offered with 'vaushat,' 202, 346. mâhendra-graha, belongs to Indra, III, 13, 17;-drawing of, 41, 81, 113. mahiman, two Soma-cups (drawn for Pragâpati) at Asvamedha, day and night, IV, 401; V, 327; mahiman, is royal power, 327; the first drawn in gold vessel, 391; the second in silver vessel, 394. mahishi, first wife, III, 238; lies down near the sacrificial horse, V, 386; addressed by Brahman, 386.
SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
Mâhitthi, III, 175; IV, 105-8, 271. maiden, beautiful maiden is apt to be loved (by men), V, 295; given as dakshina, 402. Maitrâvaruna, his hearth, III, 80, 81; sterile cow his fee at Dasapeya, 119; is under Hotri. V, 137; is the mind of the sacrifice, 245. maitråvaruna-graha, III, 6. Makha, is the sacrifice, III, 233; Vishnu, V, 443; his head re
stored, Saumya, 454.
male, is pre-eminently endowed with power, IV, 230; m. organ, (of three parts), V, 19; has one joint, 19.
malt, of rice and barley, V, 219,
450 seq.;- Makha
223 n., 240.
man,-is skinless, III, 32; men be
long to Vishnu, 54; lives up to a hundred years, 93, 135, 405; V, 261, 275; has a hundred powers or energies, III, 93, 135; V, 275; is born into a (future) world made by him, III, 181; the sham-man his sacrificial substitute, 197; is a fathom high, 309; is Pragâpati, 309; man's life shorter than the gods', 344; tends upwards by his vital airs, 368; is not held down by food and breath, 379; man's human form is clay, 382; men have their birthplace in the west (the Gârhapatya), 389; man created from Pragapati's mind (manas), 402; is the first and strongest of animals, 402; is produced in the shape of the pankti, IV, 38; (male) is lucky if marked on right side, 31; single man has many wives, 230; man with upstretched arms the measure for the fire-altar, 305; that is his highest measure, 305; fivefold (by food, drink, excellence, light, and immortality), 326, 327; when man dies he, by his five vital airs, passes into fire, sun, moon, the quarters, and the wind, and becomes one of them, 333; must not eat food in the presence of his wife, 369; man at the end of sexual union becomes apathetic and sleeps, 370; is king Soma, V, 6; of sixteen parts, 20; man is born thrice (through birth, sacrifice, and death), 23, 24; daily offering to men (by entertaining guests), 95; black, yellow-eyed man (Wrath) between women (Belief and Unbelief) in North-East quarter, 110-112; man's thought taken by sun (whence saying, the divine
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