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-BRAHMANA.
a sacrificial session of a hundred Atirâtras: when ye have thereby repelled the Asuras and darkness, and all evil, ye shall find the world of heaven.'
6. They entered upon a sacrificial session of a hundred Atirâtras; and, having thereby repelled the Asuras and darkness, and all evil, they found (the way to the world of heaven. In their first fifty days? the night-hymns reached into the day, and the day-hymns into the night.
7. They spake, Verily, we have got into confusion and know not what to do: come, let us resort to Father Pragàpati!' Having come to Father Pragậpati, they spake (the verses), 'Our night-hymns are (chanted) in daytime, and those of the day at night: Osage, being learned and wise, teach thou us who are ignorant (how to perform) the sacrifices!'
8. He then recited to them as follows, 'A stronger, pursuing, has, as it were, driven a great snake from its own place, the lake: therefore the sacrificial session is not carried through
9. 'For your Asvina (sastra), being recited, has indeed driven the morning-litany from its place 2.'—
sastras of the Agnishtoma, and) the fifteen chants of the Ukthya, adds a sixteenth; and the Atirâtra which has thirteen additional chants (and recitations), viz. three nocturnal rounds of four chants each, and one twilight-chant, followed by the Asvinasastra, recited by the Hotri. No account is here taken of either the Atya gnishtoma of thirteen chants, or the Aptoryama, which, to those of the Atirätra, adds four more chants. Cf. part ii, p. 397, note 2.
Or, perhaps, rather, in their days prior to the fiftieth (arvåkpåtkâseshav ahahsu), St. Petersb. Dict.
* The Asvina-sastra, with the recitation of which, by the Hotri, the Atirâtra concludes, takes the place, and is, indeed,
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