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.
the horse for (performing) the Udgftha, it is just as when one who knows the country leads on the right way: the horse leads the Sacrificer rightly to the heavenly world. It makes Hin",' and thereby makes the Saman itself to be 'hin': this is the Udgitha. They pen up mares, (and on seeing the horse) they utter a shrill sound: as when the chanters sing, such like is this. The priests' fee is gold weighing a hundred (grains): the mystic import of this has been explained s.
FOURTH BRÂHMANA. 1. Pragå pati desired, Would that I might gain both worlds, the world of the gods, and the world of men.' He saw those beasts, the tame and the wild ones; he seized them, and by means of them took possession of these two worlds: by means of the tame beasts he took possession of this (terrestrial) world, and by means of the wild beasts of yonder (world); for this world is the world of men, and yonder world is the world of the gods. Thus when he seizes tame beasts he thereby takes possession of this world, and when wild beasts, he thereby (takes possession) of yonder (world).
2. Were he to complete (the sacrifice) with tame ones, the roads would run together, the village
On the mystic significance of this ejaculation (here compared with the neighing of the horse) in the sacrifice, and especially in the Såman, see I, 4, 1, 1 seqq.; II, 2, 4, 12. * XII, 7, 2, 13.
The commentary remarks that by 'roads' here is meant those walking on them-as, in that case, peace and security would reign, men would range all the lands :-adhvabhir atradhvastha lakshyante; ksheme sati manushyâh sarvån desân samkareyur ity abhiprayah.
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