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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MANDALA II, HYMN 4.
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path is black, the hot, the joyous one has shone, laughing 3 like the sky with its clouds.
7. He who has spread himself burning over the wide (earth), moves about like an animal, free, without a keeper. The flaming Agni, burning down the brushwood, with a black trail', has, as it were, tasted the earth.
8. Now in the remembrance of thy former blessings this prayer has been recited to thee at the third sacrifice! Give to us, Agni, mighty strength with a succession of valiant men, with plenty of food; (give us) wealth with good progeny?.
9. Give, O Agni, such vigour to thy praiser together with his liberal (lords), that the Gritsamadas, rich in valiant men, victorious over hostile plots, attaining (their aim) in secret, may overcome through thee (their rivals) who get behind ?.
NOTES.
The Rishi is Somahuti Bhargava, the metre Trishtubh.No verse occurs in the other Samhitâs.
Verse 1.
Note 1. To me there seems to be no doubt that the meaning of suvrikti is something like 'beautiful prayer,' 'beautiful song,'and then a god who is invoked with beautiful songs.' Thus suvriktáyah or other cases of the same word stand by the side of stómah . . . glrah, VIII, 8, 22; of girah, I, 64, 1; VIII, 96, 10, comp. X, 64, 4; of brahma, VII, 31, 11; 97,9; of stómaih, VII, 96, 1; of dhitibhih, VI, 61,2; of ákkhoktibhih matînấm, I, 61, 3, and so on. Comp. also VII, 83, 9. hávâmahe vâm vrishana suvriktibhih; X, 41, 1. rátham ... suvriktibhih vayám võushta ushásah havâmahe; X, 80, 7. avokama suvriktím.
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