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 KÂNDA, 3 ADHYAYA, 4 BRAHMANA, 8.
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Narayana, 'Offer sacrifice! offer sacrifice!' He spake, Verily, thou sayest to me, "offer sacrifice ! offer sacrifice!" and thrice have I offered sacrifice : by the morning-service the Vasus went forth, by the midday-service the Rudras, and by the eveningservice the Ådityas ; now I have but the offeringplace?, and on the offering-place I am sitting.'
2. He spake, • Offer yet sacrifice! I will tell thee such a thing that thy hymns shall be strung as a pearl on a thread, or a thread through a pearl.'
3. And he spake thus unto him, 'At the (chanting of the) Bahishpavamâna, at the morning-service, thou shalt hold on to the Udgatri from behind, saying, “Thou art a falcon formed of the Gayatri metre,—I hold on to thee: bear me unto well-being!”
4. 'And at the midday Pavamâna thou shalt hold on to the Udgåtri from behind, saying, “Thou art an eagle formed of the Trishtubh metre,- I hold on to thee: bear me unto well-being !”
5. 'And at the Arbhava-pavamâna, at the eveningservice, thou shalt hold on to the Udgåtri from behind, saying, “Thou art a Ribhu formed of the Gagat metre, -I hold on to thee: bear me unto well-being!”
6. 'And at the close of each pressing thou shalt mutter, “In me be light, in me might, in me glory, in me everything!”
7. Now light, indeed, is this (terrestrial) world. might the air-world, glory the heavens, and what other worlds there are, they are everything (else).
8. And light, indeed, is Agni, might Váyu (the
'? That is to say, those deities have taken possession of everything else. Cf. J. Muir, Orig. Sansk. Texts, vol. v, p. 377.
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