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XI KÂNDA, 5 ADHYAYA, 9 BRÂHMANA, 5.
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Ninth BRÂHMANA.
THE ADÂBHYA-Graha. 1. Now, the Amsu (cup of Soma)', indeed, is no other than Pragàpati; and it is the body of this (sacrifice), for Pragâpati, indeed, is the body. And the Adàbhya? (cup of Soma) is no other than speech. When he draws the Amsu-cup, and then the Adâbhya-cup, he thereby constructs the body of this (sacrifice) and then establishes that speech therein.
2. And, indeed, the Amsu is also the mind, and the Adabhya speech; and the Amsu is the outbreathing, and the Adâbhya the up-breathing; and the Amsu is the eye, and the Adâbhya the ear: these two cups they draw for the sake of wholeness and completeness.
3. Now; the gods and the Asuras, both of them sprung from Pragâ pati, were contending,—it was for this very sacrifice, for Pragàpati, that they were contending, saying, 'Ours he shall be! ours he shall be !'
4. The gods then went on singing praises, and toiling. They saw this cup of Soma, this Adâbhya, and drew it: they seized upon the (three) Somaservices, and possessed themselves of the whole sacrifice, and excluded the Asuras from the sacrifice.
5. They spake, 'Surely, we have destroyed (adabhama) them;' whence (the cup is called) Adabhya ;
- they have not destroyed (dabh) us;' whence also (it is called) Adabhya. And the Adâbhya
See IV, 1, 1, 2; 6, 1, 1. . See part ii, p. 424, note 1.
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