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.
formula ?' Let him say, “In that they then perform the Opening Atirätra, thereby (he becomes such a one).'
6. As to this they ask, “Seeing that there are the twelve months of the year, and that one day, to wit, the Vishuvat, is in excess, does this belong to those (months) that go before or to those that follow ?' Let him say, ' Both to those that go before and to those that follow ;' for the Vishuvat is the body (trunk) of the year, and the months are its limbs ; and where the body is there are (or, that includes) also the limbs, and where the limbs are there is also the body; and neither is the body in excess of the limbs, nor are the limbs in excess of the body : and thus, indeed, that (day) belongs both to those (months) that go before and to those that follow.
7. But, indeed, that year is a great eagle: the six months which they perform prior to the Vishuvat are the one wing, and those which they perform subsequent thereto are the other; and the Vishuvat is the body; and, indeed, where the body is there are also the wings, and where the wings are there is also the body; for neither is the body in excess of the wings, nor are the wings in excess of the body: and thus, indeed, that (day) belongs both to those (months) that go before and to those that follow.
8. As to this they ask, “Seeing that for six months prior to the Vishuvat they perform Stomas tending upwards, and for six (months) reversed
See XI, 2, 5, 10 with note. The Katurvimsa day is, as it were, a promise on the part of the Sacrificer to perform the sacrificial session; whilst the Prayaniya Atiratra not only represents the actual entering on the performance, but, as it were, implies the Udayanîya Atirätra (XII, 2, 2, 18).
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