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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
is that Agni is the obtainer of wealth, and Indra is the recipient of wealth ; and Indra and Agni are indeed the (joint) divinity of the metres : and in this way it is for a deity that the vashat is pronounced, and to a deity that the offering is made.
17. After he has made the last after-offering, he pours together (the butter which remains in the upabhrit with that which attaches to the guha), and offers it (by pouring it from the guhd in a line from west to east into the fire). For doubtless these are the after-offerings to the fore-offerings : hence even as there, at the fore-offerings ?, he makes the spiteful enemy pay tribute to the sacrificer, and the one to be consumed pay tribute to the consumer; so now he makes him pay tribute at the afterofferings.
THIRD BRÂHMANA.
SŪKTAVÅKA, SAMYUVÂKA, AND OFFERING OF Remains. 1. He now separates the two spoons (guha and upabhrit), with the text (Vâg. S. II, 15 a), May I be victorious after the victory of Agni and Soma ! with the impetus of the (sacrificial) food I urge myself on. With his right hand he moves the guhů eastwards (from its usual place on the prastara-bunch upon the altar), with the text (ib. b), “May Agni and Soma drive him away who hates us, and whom
i See I, 5, 3, 18.
? The whole of the third. Brahmana is taken up with the duties of the Adhvaryu and Agnidhra at the three ceremonies: paragraphs 1-19 with those at the sûkta vaka; pars. 20-22 with those at the samyuvâka; and pars. 23-27 with those at the offering of the remains (samsrava) of butter. The duties of the Hotri are then detailed in the fourth Brâhmana.
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