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, 52.
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Apasyah ;-hence when he lays them down, he thereby puts back into him that very water which went from him : therefore he now lays these down.
46. [Vâg. S. XIII, 43] ‘In the way of the waters I settle thee!' the way of the waters is the wind; for when he blows hither and thither then the waters flow: in the wind he settles' this (first
brick).
47. ' In the swell of the waters I settle thee!' the swell of the waters is the plants, for wherever the waters keep swelling there plants grow: in the plants he settles this (brick).
48. In the ashes of the waters I settle thee!' the ashes of the waters are the foam: in foam he settles this one.
49. `In the light of the waters I settle thee!' the light of the waters is the lightning: in the lightning he settles this one.
50. 'In the path of the waters I settle thee!' the path of the waters is this earth, for on the earth the waters flow: on this earth he settles this one. Whatever water flowed from those (five) forms of his, that water he now (by these five formulas) puts back into him; and those forms themselves he thereby restores to him.
51. 'In the flood, the seat, I settle thee!' the flood is the breath: in the breath he settles this one.
52. 'In the ocean, the seat, I settle thee!' the sea is the mind; from the mind-ocean, with speech for a shovel, the gods dug out the triple science. Thereto this verse applies,— May the true god know this day where the gods placed that offering, they who dug it out from the ocean with
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