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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XIII KÂNDA, 3 ADHYÂYA, 6 BRÂHMANA, 2.
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4. Mundibha Audanya' it was who discovered this atonement for the slaying of a Brahman; and when one offers the oblation to the Brahmahatya he prepares a remedy for the slayer of a Brahman by satisfying Death himself with an oblation, and making a protection ? for him the slayer). At whosoever's Asvamedha, therefore, this oblation is offered, even if in after-times 8 any one in his family kills a Brahman, he thereby prepares a remedy (expiation) for him.
Sixth BRAHMANA 1. When the horse was slaughtered, the life-sapwent out of it; it became the Asvastomiya (set of oblations): when he offers the Asvastomiya (oblations) he indeed supplies the horse with life-sap.
2. He performs it with ghee; for ghee is life-sap, and the Asvastomiya is life-sap: by means of life
" That is, according to Harisvâmin, the son of Udanya (Odana, St. Petersb. Dict.), Taitt. Br. III, 9, 15, 3, has Mundibha Audanyava (i.e. the son of Udanyu, Sây.) instead. The Taitt. Br., besides, makes the crime to be expiated here to be, not 'brahmahatya,' but 'bhrAnahatya,' the killing of an embryo. Såyana, however, there allows to bhräna' optionally its later meaning of 'a Brahmana versed in the three Vedas and the sacrificial art (kalpa),' and the Taitt. Br. itself, at all events, takes this oblation to bhrûnabatya' to atone likewise for the slaying of a Brahmana.
• Harisvâmin explains paripânam' by parisish/am vânantam pånam' (?); whilst Sayana, in Taitt. Br., takes it in the sense of
sarvatah pátram,' i.e. having made the Sacrificer a thoroughly worthy person.
• Harisvâmin here unwarrantably takes 'apari: hu' in the sense of in past times.'
• Or, sacrificial essence. • See p. 336, note 2.
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