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.
they purify (the liquor) with triple strainers: the Fathers, whilst being mortal, he thus places in the immortal womb, and them that are mortal he causes to be born (again) from out of the immortal womb; and, verily, whosoever thus knows this, or he for whom, knowing this, this sacrificial rite is performed, wards off the recurring death of the Fathers, and the sacrifice is not cut off from him.
13. Now, inasmuch as these two fires are taken from the Åhavaniya, they are Ahavaniyas (offeringfires), and inasmuch as they do not again reach the Âhavaniya, they are not Åhavaniyas : he thereby obtains both kinds of oblations, that which is (offered) on the Åhavaniya, and that which is (offered) on what is not an Åhavaniya—both what is offered and what is not offered.
He (Balhika Prâtipiya) then went home, and said, 'It is not so (as we had thought): that kingdom of the Sriñgayas now belongs to Dushtaritu ;-in such and such a manner has that Kakra Sthapati this day performed at the sacrifice.'
14. On the northern fire they thus perform the rites of the sacrificial animals, the (animal) cakes, and the cups of milk, and what other (rite) there is: it is the gods, in the world of the gods, he thereby gratifies, and, thus gratified, they gratify him, and he wins the world of the gods.
15. In the southern fire they offer (libations from) the cups of Sura-liquor, near the southern fire they purify (the liquor) with triple strainers : it is the Fathers, in the world of the Fathers, he thereby gratifies, and, thus gratified, they gratify him, and he wins the world of the Fathers.
16. Verily, the Sautrâmant is the same as the
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