Satapatha Bramhana Part 05

SR No.: 007680
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1900
Total Pages: 2017
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 44 MB

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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
way he does not run counter to (the Hotri's) speech by (his own) speech, nor metre by metre.
II. 'When the Prâtar-anuvâka has been completed, he (the Pratiprasthâtri), having offered, at their proper time, the Upâmsu and Antaryâma cups, presses out the straining-cloth and puts it in the Dronakalasa. And when ye have performed the (offering of the cups of) fermented Soma, and returned (to the Sadas), ye should drink the fermented Soma (remaining in those cups). Having then, in the proper form, completed the "tail of the sacrifice," and taken up the cups of Soma (drawn) subsequent to the Antaryâma, and offered the oblation of drops, as well as the Santani-oblation", ye should perform the Bahishpavamâna chant, and enter upon the day (-performance).'
12. Concerning this there are these verses :'With four harnessed Saindhava (steeds) the sages left behind them the gloom-the wise gods who spun out the session of a hundred sacrifices.'
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13. In this (sacrificial session) there are, indeed, four harnessed (steeds), to wit, two Hotris and two Adhvaryus.-'Like unto the artificer contriving spikes to the spear, the sages coupled the ends of
Yathâyatanam eva prakritau yasmin kâle hûyeta tathaiva hutva, Sây.
* See IV, 1, 1, 22 seqq.; I, 2, 21 seqq.
See II, 1, 2, 3, with note thereon.
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That is, having, after the completion of the Âsvina-sastra, offered to the Asvins some of the Soma that has been standing over the previous day.'
Viz. the Aindravâyava, Maitrâvaruna, &c., see IV, 1, 3, 1 seqq. See IV, 2, 5, I seqq.
' Called 'savanasantani' (? i. e. continuity of pressing) by Kâty., XXIV, 4, I.
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