Satapatha Bramhana Part 03

SR No.: 007679
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 2382
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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V KÂNDA, 4 ADHYAYA, 3 BRÂHMANA, 22.
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for it was produced from ghee. Hence also cows readily take to a boar : it is indeed their own essence (life-sap, blood) they are readily taking to. Thus he firmly establishes himself in the essence of the cattle: therefore he puts on shoes of boar's skin.
20. Looking down on this (earth) he then mutters, O mother Earth, injure me not, nor I thee!' For the Earth was once afraid of Varuna, when he had been consecrated, thinking, 'Something great surely has he become now that he has been consecrated : I fear lest he may rend me asunderl' And Varuna also was afraid of the Earth, thinking, 'I fear lest she may shake me off! Hence by that (formula) he entered into a friendly relation with her; for a mother does not injure her son, nor does a son injure his mother.
21. Now this Râgasûya is Varuna's consecration; and the Earth is afraid of him, thinking, 'Something great surely has he become now that he has been consecrated : I fear lest he may rend me asunder!' And he also is afraid of her, thinking, 'I fear lest she may shake me off.' Hence he thereby enters into a friendly relation with her; for a mother does not injure her son, nor does a son injure his mother : therefore he mutters thus.
22. He steps down (from the chariot), muttering this atikhandas verse (Vág. S. X, 24; Rik S. IV, 40,5), 'The swan dwelling in the light, the Vasu dwelling in the air, the priest seated on the altar, the guest dwelling in the retreat (house), -the man-dwelling, the space-dwelling?, the law-dwelling, the sphere-dwelling, the water
Or perhaps, ‘in the best place (vara).' See VI, 7, 3, 11.
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