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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XIII KÂNDA, 3 ADHYÂYA, 6 BRÂHMANA, 6.
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his support. The Dvipadás he offers last, for Dvipadâs are a support: he thus finds a support (establishes himself). With, 'To Gumbaka hail!' he offers, at the purificatory bath, the last oblation"; for Gumbaka is Varuna : by sacrifice he thus manifestly redeems himself from Varuna. He offers it on the head of a white-spotted , baldheaded (man) with protruding teeth 8 and reddish brown eyes; for that is Varuna's form : by (that) form (of his) he thus redeems himself from Varuna.
6. Having stepped out (of the water) he prepares twelve messes of cooked rice for the priests, or performs twelve ishtis. Concerning this they say,
These—to wit, ishtis-are a form of sacrifice: were he to perform ishtis, the sacrifice would be ready to incline towards him; but he would become the worse for it, for, surely, of exhausted strength now are the metres (offering formulas) of him who has performed the Soma-sacrifice ;-how could he make use of them so soon ? For when the sacrifice is complete, Våk (speech and sacred writ 4) is wholly gained, and, being gained, it now is exhausted in strength, and, as it were, wounded and mangled; but sacrifice is speech : hence he should not make use of it.'
See p. 336, note 1. '? Or, pale. Sayana, on Taitt. Br. III, 9, 15, 3, explains *sukla' by kitrin' (? having white spots, or affected with white leprosy). Harisvä min does not explain the word.
• Harisvâmin explains viklidha' by dantura,' i.e, one who has projecting teeth; whilst Sâyana, 1.c., explains it by either "given to perspiring (svedanasilasarfra),' or 'moist-bodied (? leprous, or, old, in bodily decay, viklinnadeha).'
• Cf. V, 5, 5, 12 that triple Veda is the thousandfold progeny of Våk.'
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