The Satapatha-Brâhmana, Part V — SBE Vol. 44 (trans. Julius Eggeling, 1900)

Madhuka Paihgya, remark on animal sacrifice, 122.

Madhyandina-pavamana (at VAgapeya), III, 8.

Magha, month suitable for erecting of sepulchral mound, V, 423.

maghavat = makhavat, V, 443.

Mahadeva, V, 81.

Mahad uktham, IV, introd. xxv ; in bird’s shape, xxv; I10 seq.; (? a different recension, 111 n., 168 n.); the Satarudriya accounted to be equal to it, 168, 273; an ocean of rids, 278; not to be recited for another, 279, 367; fire-altar, Mahad uktham, and Mahavrata are the Sacrificer’s divine, immortal body, 279;—281 seq.; originated from the vital fluid (rasa) of Pragapati’s dismembered body, 282 ; the Hotri thereby puts Pragapati’s vital fluid into the Somacup, 283; it is equivalent to all the riks, 283; is a bird-like body, 286; is the sky, speech, the body, 286; thereby the Hotri puts flavour into the Mahfavratiya cup, 346; is the orb of the sun, 366; triad, Agni, Arka, Mahad uktham, V, 172; —cf. uktha.

mahanamni verses, III, introd. xx, xxi.

Mahan Devaé, a form and name of
Agni, is Pragapati, III, 160.
mahas (wealth, or joy), as a formula

pronounced after the Agnihotra,

V, 126.

Mab4sala Gab4la, instructed by Dhira Sataparneyaon the nature of Agni, 1V, 331, 393; (? the same as Prakinasala Aupamanya), 393 N., 395.

Mahivira pot (Vishzu and the Sun), etymology, V, 443; making of, 447 Seq. ; its form, 454; anointed with ghee, 462; is revered (as the sun), 469.

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Mahavrata, IV, introd. xxv seq. ; 110, 168; the last day (before concluding day) of Gavim ayanam, and formerly one of the three great rites of the Sattra, V, (139), 144, 167.

Mahfvrata-sfman, in bird’s shape, IV, introd. xxvi, 110; an ocean of simans, 278; not to be chanted for another, 279, 367; fire-altar, Mahavrata and Mahad uktham are the Sacrificer's divine, immortal body, 279; thereby the Udgatri puts Pragapati’s vital fluid into the Soma-cup, 282; is equivalent to all (other) samans, 283; composition of (Gayatra, Rathantara, Brihat, Bhadra, and Ragana-sdmans), 282, 283; is a bird-like body, 286; is the air, breath, 286; the vrata of the great one (Agni), 342; thereby the Udgatri puts flavour into the Mahavratiya cup, 346; is the light of the sun, 366.

mahavratiya-graha, IV, introd. xxvi,
282; by offering it, the Adhvaryu puts the vital fluid into
Pragapati, 284; is Pragapati’s
food, 346; is offered with
‘ vaushas,’ 202, 346.

mahendra-graha, belongs to Indra,
III, 13, 17 ;—drawing of, 41,
81, 113.

mahiman, two Soma-cups (drawn for Pragapati) at Asvamedha, day and night, IV, 401 ; V, 327; mahiman, is royal power, 327; the first drawn in gold vessel, 391 ; the second in silver vessel, 394.

mahishi, first wife, III, 238; lies down near the sacrificial horse, V, 386; addressed by Brahman,

386,

Maâhitthi, TI, 175 ; IV, ros-8, 271.

maiden, — beautiful maiden is apt to be loved (by men), V, 295; given as dakshina, 402.

mahishi, first wife, III, 238; lies down near the sacrificial horse, V, 386; addressed by Brahman,

386,

Maâhitthi, TI, 175 ; IV, ros-8, 271.

maiden, — beautiful maiden is apt to be loved (by men), V, 295; given as dakshina, 402.

Maitravaruna, his hearth, IIT, 80, 81; sterile cow his fee at Dasapeya, 119; is under Hotri, V, 137; is the mind of the sacrifice, 245.

maitravaruna-graha, IIT, 6.

Makha, is the sacrifice, III, 233; Vishsu, V, 443; his head restored, 450 seq.;— Makha Saumya, 454.

male, is pre-eminently endowed with power, IV, 230; m. organ, (of three parts), V, 19; has one joint, r9.

malt, of rice and barley, V, 219, 223 0., 240.

man,—is skinless, III, 32 ; men belong to Vishnu, 54; lives up toa hundred years, 93, 135, 405; V, 261, 275; has a hundred powers or energies, III, 93, 1353; V, 275; is born into a (future) world made by him, ITI, 181; the sham-man his sacrificial substitute, 197; is a fathom high, 309; is Pragapati, 309; man’s life shorter than the gods’, 344; tends upwards by his vital airs, 368; is not held down by food and breath, 379; man’s human form is clay, 382; men have their birthplace in the west (the G§arhapatya), 389; man created from Pragapati’s mind (manas), 402; is the first and strongest of animals, 402; is produced in the shape of the pankti, IV, 38; (male) is lucky if marked on right side, 31; single man has many wives, 230; man with upstretched arms the measure for the fire-altar, 305 ; that is his highest measure, 305; fivefold (by food, drink, excellence, light, and immortality), 326, 327; when man dies he, by his five vital airs, passes into fire, sun, moon, the quarters, and the wind, and becomes one of them, 333; must not eat food in the presence of his wife, 369 ; man at the end of sexual union becomes apathetic and sleeps, 370; is king Soma, V, 6; of sixteen parts, 20; man is born thrice (through birth, sacrifice, and death), 23, 24; daily offering to men (by entertaining guests), 95; black, yellow-eyed man (Wrath) between two women (Belief and Unbelief) in North-East quarter, 1ro-112; man’s thought taken by sua (whence saying, ‘the divine

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thought protect thee, not man’s thought !’), 130; man as the year (year's sattra), 144, 145, 168 seq.; man does not know clearly the way to heaven, 305; men the subjects of Manu Vaivasvata, the Ris their Veda, 362. man in the eye. See eye.

man in the sun. See sun.

manas. See mind.

manthin (graha), III, 6; purorué formula of, 111; produced from aida-siman, and from it the ekavisasa-stoma, IV, 10,

Manu, is Pragapati, III, 250; carried by the earth (his wife, a mare), V, 466.

Manu Vaivasvata, king of men,V, 361.

MAnutantavya. See Saumapa.

Manyu, the one god who did not abandon Pragapati, IV, 157; becomes Rudra, 157.

mare, brings forth within a year, V, 123 mare with foal the dakshina at Sautrimani, 218, 222 ; mares enclosed to make the sacrificial horse whinny, 306,

MAnutantavya. See Saumapa.

Manyu, the one god who did not abandon Pragapati, IV, 157; becomes Rudra, 157.

mare, brings forth within a year, V, 123 mare with foal the dakshina at Sautrimani, 218, 222 ; mares enclosed to make the sacrificial horse whinny, 306,

Margaliya hearth, at Agnifayana constructed of six bricks (the seasons, the Fathers), IV, 243; used for cleansing, V, 490.

mark, on body. See lakshman.

marrow,—the formula used in laying down the brick is the marrow, IV, 20; is the light of man’s body, 327; is the Yagushmatf bricks, hence 360 parts of marrow in the body, 387; V, 169.

marud-netraé (devaé), seated in the north, IIT, 49.

Maruts,—(uggesha4) offering of sterile cow to, III, 13; are the peasantry (vis), 13, 34, 61; staying on Asvattha tree, 34,84; by seven syllables gain the domestic animals, 40; seven-kap4la cake to, 61; rathavimoaniya oblation, ror; dappled cow their victim at oblation of teams, 125; Adityas and Maruts connected with embryos, and pastkavimsa-stoma, IV, 68 ; lords of the north, 102; connected with Soma, ekavimsa - stoma, nishkevalya - sastra, vai - n, 102; Vasus, Rudras,

Adityas, Maruts, Visve Devas, build on different sides of altar (E. S. W. N. Zen.), 118; rule over rain, 170; seven cakes of seven kapalas to them, 208 seq.; these are the vital airs (of Vaisvanara, the head), 209; they are the vis, 210; their cakes offered to sitting, 210; with the hand, with Svaha (without a proper anuvakya and yagya), 211; are the rays of the sun, 212; the stormy (region), the troup of the Maruts, is the air, 236; are the guardians of one of the four regions, V, 359; Maruts, as guards-men of king Marutta, 397; animal sacrifice to, 402; Maruts, as the people, surround the (samrag) Pravargya, 466. Marutta Avikshita, the Ayogava king, performed the Asvamedha, V, 397. marutvatiya-sastra, connected with Varuna, the Adityas, the west, &c., 1V, ror, 102; on second day of Asvamedha, V, 379, 380. mate, makes man complete, IV, 132; is one half of one’s self, 132. Matsya Sammada, king of waterdwellers, V, 369; cf. Dhvasan. Maudgalya. See Naka Maudgalya. Maya,—as such, Asuras serve the divine Purusha, IV, 373. Menaka, the Apsaras, is the southern quarter, or heaven, IV, 106. metres,—connected with the Brahman, &c., III, 91; Gayatri, Trishtubh, Gagati, Anushtubh, 201-202; immortal metres, 203 ; identified with the white and black hair of the black antelope skin, the rig and saman, 266; mounting of those four metres (representing the worlds), 276, 2773 are vital sap, 352; the oceanic (samudriya) metre, 352; the seven, 353; IV, 277, 314; looseness in calculating, III, 3533 are life-sustaining gods, 1V, 32; the cattle become metres, 36; different kinds of metres, 36 seq.; are cattle, 45; and food, 87; the eight defined and the undefined ones, 53, 88 seq.; etymology, 87; the ééandasya4

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