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SATAPATHA-BRÂHMANA.
spring is the Brahmana's season, and truly who soever sacrifices, sacrifices after becoming, as it were, a Brâhmana: let him therefore by all means begin it in spring.
4. And six days, or seven days, before that fullmoon of Phålguna, the officiating priests meet together—to wit, the Adhvaryu, the Hotri, the Brahman, and the Udgåtri ; for under these the other priests are.
5. The Adhvaryu prepares for them a priest's mess of rice sufficient for four persons: the meaning of this has been explained. Four bowlfuls, four double handfuls, four handfuls: twelvefold this istwelve months are a year, and the year is everything, and the Asvamedha is everything—thus it is in order to his gaining and securing everything.
6. Those four priests eat it: the meaning of this has been explained. He (the Sacrificer) gives to them four thousand (cows) in order to his gaining and securing everything, for a thousand means everything, and the Asvamedha is everything. And (he gives them) four gold plates weighing a hundred (grains): the meaning of this has been explained
7. The Adhvaryu then, hanging a gold ornament (nishka) round him, makes him mutter (Våg. S. XXII, 1), 'Fire thou art, light and immortality,' — for gold, indeed, is fire, light“, and
'Or, along with these, included in them (are the assistant priests).
See XIII, 1, 1, 1; 4 (cf. II, 1, 4, 4). • XII, 7, 2, 13.
• Perhaps Mabidhara is right in taking 'suknm' here in the sense of seed' (Agner viryam); cf. II, 1, 1, 5; XIII, 1, 1, 4.
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| SR No. | 007679 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 03 |
| 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 |