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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V KÂNDA, 2 ADHYAYA, I BRÂHMANA, 17.
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We have gone to the light, O ye gods!' for he who offers the Vâgapeya, indeed goes to the light
13. And as to why he touches the wheat: wheat is food, and he who offers the Vâgapeya, wins food, for våga-peya is the same as anna-peya (food and drink): thus whatever food he has thereby won, therewith now that he has gone to that supreme goal, he puts himself in contact, and possesses himself of it,therefore he touches the wheat (top-piece).
14. He then rises by (the measure of) his head over the post, with, 'We have become immortal!' whereby he wins the world of the gods.
15. Thereupon, while looking in the different directions, he mutters (Våg. S. IX, 22), 'Ours be your power, ours your manhood and intelligence, ours be your energies!' For he who offers the Vâgapeya wins everything here, winning as he does Pragâpati, and Pragâpati being everything here;having appropriated to himself the glory, the power, and the strength of this All, he now lays them within himself, makes them his own : that is why he mutters, while looking in the different directions.
16. They throw up to him bags of salt; for salt means cattle, and cattle is food; and he who offers the Vagậpeya wins food, for våga-peya is the same as anna-peya: thus whatever food he thereby has gained, therewith now that he has gone to the supreme goal, he puts himself in contact, and makes it his own,-therefore they throw bags of salt up to him.
17. They (the pieces of salt) are done up in asvattha
arms to heaven, praying, 'We have gone to the light, to the gods, we have become immortal; we have become Pra gâpati's children!'
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