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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XII KANDA, I ADHYAYA, 3 BRAHMANA, 9. 141
4. And when they perform the guest-offering they indeed offer sacrifice to the deity Vishnu : they become the deity Vishnu, and attain to fellowship and co-existence with Vishnu.
5. And when they perform the Pravargya-offering1 they indeed offer sacrifice to the deity Aditya: they become the deity Âditya, and attain to fellowship and co-existence with Aditya (the sun).
6. And when they enter upon the Upasads they indeed offer sacrifice to those very deities 2 who (receive oblations) at the Upasads: they become those deities, and attain to fellowship and co-existence with those deities.
7. And when they perform the animal sacrifice to Agni and Soma they indeed offer sacrifice to the deities Agni and Soma: they become the deities Agni and Soma, and attain to fellowship and co-existence with Agni and Soma.
8. And when they perform the opening Atirâtra (of the sacrificial session) they indeed offer sacrifice to those deities, the Day and Night: they become those deities, the Day and Night, and attain to fellowship and co-existence with the Day and Night.
9. And when they enter upon the Katurvimsa day they indeed offer sacrifice to that deity, the Year: they become that deity, the Year, and attain to fellowship and co-existence with the Year.
1 See XIV, 1-3; and part ii, p. 104, note 3.
2 Viz. Agni, Soma, and Vishnu; cf. part ii, p. 105, note 1. See part ii, p. 162 seqq.
Viz. inasmuch as the Atirâtra includes both a day and a night performance.
Viz. both because this is the real opening day of the year's session, and because Pragâpati (as the Purusha and the Year) is 'katurvimsa' or 'twenty-four-fold' (e. g. VI, 2, 1, 23).
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