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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VI KÂNDA, 7 ADHYÂYA, 3 BRÂHMANA, 2.
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minded; Mount the Gagati metre!'--for the Gagati metre he does mount;—'stride along the sky!'-along the sky he indeed strides. He stretches his foot forward and strides : he raises the fire (yet further) upwards, for upwards he ascends.
16. Thou art Vishnu's stride,'--for in the form of Vishnu he strides ;—'the slayer of the hostile,'--for he now does slay the hostile ;'mount thou the Anushtubh metre!'-the Anushtubh metre he does mount;-'stride along the quarters!'-he looks along the (four) quarters ; he does not stretch forward his foot, thinking, ‘Lest I lose these worlds !'—He raises the fire right up, for he ascends completely (to the top).
THIRD BRAHMANA. 1. He then holds it (the fire in the pan) up thus (towards north-east). Now the gods at that time were desiring, 'May we be like Parganya (the raingod)!' By that body (of his ) they became like Parganya, and in like manner does the Sacrificer by that body (of his) become like Parganya.
2. (Vág. S. XII, 6; Rik S. X, 45, 4] 'Agni roared like the thundering sky,'—for he (Agni) indeed roars like the thundering Parganya ;-'again and again licking the ground, stroking? the plants,'—for Parganya, whilst licking again and
Viz. by the Agni who is now being held up, and of whom Parganya is said to be another form, at VI, 1, 3, 15. It is probably the smoke rising from the fire-pan that suggests the idea of the Jupiter pluvius sending forth his flashes of light from the dark cloud.
? Literally, anointing (? either furbishing, or impregnating).
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