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 III, HYMN 8.
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ladles have been raised 1: may they, giving bliss to our fields ?, eagerly seek precious goods for us among the gods.
8. May the Âdityas, the Rudras, the Vasus, the good leaders, Heaven and Earth, the Earth and the Air-may the gods unanimously bless this sacrifice; may they raise up the banner of the sacrifice (the YQpa).
9. Like swans ranging themselves in rows, arraying themselves in brightness the sacrificial posts have come to us. Led up by the sages they go forward as gods to the abode of the gods.
10. Like horns of horned animals the sacrificial posts with their head-pieces are seen on the earth. Hearing (us) in the emulating call of the invoking (priests) may they protect us in the racings of battles.
11. O lord of the forest, rise with a hundred branches; may we rise with a thousand branches (offspring)—thou whom this sharpened axe has led forward to great prosperity.
NOTES.
The same Rishi. The metre is Trishtubh (verses 3 and 7 Anushtubh).
This Sakta is a collection of liturgical verses that refer to the erecting and anointing of the sacrificial post, and to the winding of a rope about it. See Aitareya Brahmana II, 2; Åsvalâyana Srautasůtra III, 1, 8 seq.; Sankhâyana Srautasůtra V, 15, 2 seq. ; Schwab, Das Altindische Thieropfer, 68 seq. ; Bergaigne, Recherches sur l'Histoire de la Liturgie Védique, 16. On the ritual acts referring to the sacrificial post which seem to be connected with ancient
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