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, 5 ADHYAYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, 12. 403
airs in each victim : he thus puts the vital airs into all of them.
10. Now, even if there is only one victim, some people thrust five times seven (into that one head), thinking, 'Those five victims he puts down (symbolically), and there are seven vital airs in each victim : thus we put the vital airs into all of them. Let him not do so, for in this animal the form of all animals is contained ?; and when he thrusts (seven chips) into this one, he thereby puts the vital airs into all of them.
11. The first (chip) he thrusts into the mouth, with (Våg. S. XIII, 38; Rik S. IV, 58, 6, 5), 'Fitly flow the draughts of milk like rivers,'— draughts of milk are food, and that indeed flows fitly into this mouth ;-'purified within by the heart, by the mind,'—for the food is indeed purified by the heart and mind within him who is righteous ;-'the streams of ghee I behold,' he thereby means the libations he is about to offer on that fire;'the golden reed (is) in the middle of Agni,' he thereby means that gold man.
12. With (Våg. S. XIII, 39), 'For praise thee!' (he thrusts one in) here into the right nostril); praise (or splendour) means breath, for with breath one praises ;-with, 'For sheen thee!' here (into the left nostril); sheen means breath, for by breath one shines; and also because everything here shines for breath ;-with, 'For brightness thee!' here into the right eye) ;-with,‘For lustre thee!' here
1 Viz. a he-goat, as the animal sacrifice to either Pragâpati, or (Vậyu) Niyutvat; see pp. 178, 184. • See VI, 3, 2, 15.
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