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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VII KÂNDA, 3 ADHYÂYA, I BRÂHMANA, 36.
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fillest (us with) profitable wisdom;' that is, thou fillest (us with) perennial wisdom.
33. 'Him, the wise arranger of the cult,'— the cult is the sacrifice : thus, 'him, the wise preparer of the sacrifice;'-'ruling over great wealth,' that is, 'ruling in great wealth ;'—'the bestowal of good things-prosperous, mighty (mah) nourishment,'--that is, the bestowal of good things ; prosperous, ample (mahat) nourishment,'— 'givest thou, and profitable substance,' that is, 'givest thou, and perennial substance.'
34. '[Thee,] the righteous,' that is, the truthful;'-'the mighty,' the mighty (or buffalo) doubtless is Agni ;-'the all-remarkable,' for he (Agni) is indeed remarkable to all ;—'(thee), Agni, men have placed foremost for happiness,' happiness doubtless is the sacrifice, and for the sacrifice they indeed place him foremost ;-'thee, the hearer, the far-ruling, divine one, with song the human tribes;' that is, thee who hearest, thee, the farruling god, we men invoke.'
35. Now this hymn of six verses is that same Agni Vaisvânara ; and it is in order to make a beginning in the building of the altar) that that sand is scattered,-he thereby pours into it Agni Vaisvânara as seed ;-(he does so) with a six-versed hymn: six seasons are a year and the year is Vaisvânara (belonging to all men).
36. As to this they say, 'If the seed is said to be seed what is its seed characteristic?'-Let him say, 'white;' for seed is white;-or 'speckled,' for seed is, as it were, speckled.
· The author connects sanasi' with 'sanâtana'(old, perpetual).
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