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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SATAPATHA-BRÂHMANA.
tied him up in two parts, they drive him around. Having then placed one-half on the throne-seat, he proceeds therewith. Having then placed on the throne-seat that portion which was deposited in the Brahman's house, he proceeds with the guest-meal. Whilst he is proceeding with the guest-meal, he performs the Upasads. Whilst he is performing the Upasads,
16. He prepares those (three) oblations,—a cake on eight potsherds for Agni; a pap for Soma; and a cake on three potsherds, or a pap, for Vishnu. Thus he performs the sacrifice in this way, if it pleases him.
17. But let him not do it in this way; for he who departs from the path of the sacrifice stumbles, and he who departs from the path of the Upasads certainly departs from the path of the sacrifice : let him therefore not depart from the path of the Upasads.
18. Now when he offers to Agni, he steals along with Agni, with fiery spirit; and when he offers to Soma, he steals along with Soma, the King; and when he offers to Vishnu,–Vishnu being the sacrifice,—he visibly obtains the sacrifice, and having visibly obtained it, he makes it his own (or, takes it in).
19. This same (Dasapeya) is an Agnishtoma sacrifice (performed) with the seventeenfold (stoma)"; for Pragâpati is seventeenfold, and Pragâpati is the
for both that ceremony and the succeeding Dasapeya ; the portion destined for the latter ceremony being meanwhile deposited in the Brahman's house.
* All the chants (stotra) of the Dasapeya are to be executed in the seventeenfold mode of chanting, or Saptadasa-stoma; for an example of which see part ii, p. 315, note 1.
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