The Satapatha-Brâhmana, Part V — SBE Vol. 44 (trans. Julius Eggeling, 1900)
The translator’s English as printed (Julius Eggeling). The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.
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are not eaters of oblations, 185 ; without them no dwelling-place becomes pure, 186; they are neither in the sky nor on earth, but whatever breathes therein, 186; connects head with body, 188; in the head fivefold (mind, speech, breath, eye, ear), 190; (praza, breath) is one of the five divisions of vital air (praza) in the head, 190; eight limbs and eight prazas, 190; vital airs kindle (the body), 205; the vital airs are the immortal part of the body, 292; how they are represented in the layers of the altar (Pragapati’s body), 292seq.; by the praza gods eat food, by the apina men, 295; are the perfect (sddhya, blessed) gods, 304; vital air is the light of the body, 326; a hundred and one in the body, 326; is not the immortal element, but something uncertain, 327; are the seven metres, 327-330; vital airs consume him who is hungry and feverish, 347, 348; breath evolved from speech, and from it the eye, 377; triad—Agni, Aditya, Prana—are the eater, the Arka, the Uktha, the Purusha, 398, 399 ;— Vayu, on entering man, is divided into the ten vital airs, V, 3; Asya, ‘the breath of the mouth,’— therefrom the gods created, 13; from the downward breathing (avana) the Asuras, 13; downward breathing abhorred by other breathings, but in it everything that enters the others meets, 19; praza (breath of mouth) is the eater of food, udana (of the nose) fills man, and (of the eyes, ears, &c.) is the giver of food, 31; prana and apana move in a forward and a backward direction respectively, 43 ; praza entering udana and reversely, 83; vyana entering udana, 84; central praza belongs to Indra, 1213 with five breathings (prava, vy4na, apana, ud4na, samana) five Brahmanas (or the father himself) to breathe over child (before navel-string has been cut) to ensure long life, 129, 130; two downward (avana) breathings and udana (by which men rise, ud-yanti), 165; two, five, six, seven,twelve, or thirteen, 168 ; praza and ana, each equal to the twinkling of _ the eye, 169; 10,800 breathings of man in day and night, 170; praza and udana, moving downward and upward, 230; all vital airs established on speech, 246; all vital airs established on praza and udana, 262; etymology (pra-ni), 263; nostrils are the path of praza, 263 ; food eaten by praza is pervaded by vyana, and its essence shed as seed, 264; vital airs of him who speaks impure speech pass away, 326; the mind (soul) their overlord, 504.
prazabhrit, bricks, are the vital airs, IV, 1; how placed, 2; laid down by tens, 3; etymology 123; are the limbs, 13 :—ot second layer, 23, 33 seq.;—ten of third layer, 51; are the moon (being food as making up a virag), 54.
pramitaé, lustral water, is the head of the sacrifice, V, 35, 492; at the haviryagina, 119; etymology, 270.
prasalavi. See pradakshizam.
prastava,— prastava and nidhana, IV, 145, 146.
Prastotri, a horse his fee at Dasapeya,
III, rr9; under Udgatri, V, 136.
pramitaé, lustral water, is the head of the sacrifice, V, 35, 492; at the haviryagina, 119; etymology, 270.
prasalavi. See pradakshizam.
prastava,— prastava and nidhana, IV, 145, 146.
Prastotri, a horse his fee at Dasapeya,
III, rr9; under Udgatri, V, 136.
prataranuvaka, III, introd. xviii; IV, 249; of Atiratra superseded by Asvina-sastra, but is to be repeated in a low voice by Maitravaruaa, V, 92, 93.
Pratidarsa Aibhavata (king of the
Svikna), as authority on the
Sautramani, V, 239.
Pratihart,i, priest, is under Udgitri,
V, 137. Pratipiya. See Balhika. - Pratiprasthatri, III, 111; gold mirror his fee at Dasapeya, 119; is under Adhvaryu, V, 137; offers the cups of Surd4-liquor on the Southern of the two
p. 560
SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
Eastern fires, 232; Pratiprasthatri (or Neshéri) leads up the king’s wives, 321.
pratish¢44 (stand), is threefold (tripod), IV, 116.
praiiga-sastra, connected with Indra, the Rudras, the South, &c., IV,
101,
Pravargya, III, 355; IV, 187; ‘setting out,’ 1V, 187; V, 493 seq.; Pravargya vessels are Agni, Vayu, and Aditya, IV, 187; the head of the Sacrifice, 188; performed as long as the Upasads, 317; is the sun, 317; V, 445; on Satarudriya day, day of preparation, and sutya day, 1V, 320 ;—performance, V, 441 seqq.; time of performance, 458; is Vayu- Pfishan, 475; when performed, 490 seq.; combined with Upasad, 493; is the year, the worlds (and Agni, Vayu, and Sfirya), the Sacriticer, &c., 507 seq.
prayaga, mystic significance of, V, 40.
prayana, III, 305.
prayaniya offering, III, 325; ends with the Samyos, LV, 258, 259; —Priyantya Atiratra, 254.
prayugaz havimshi (twelve oblations of teams), III, 123; for yoking the seasons, 123.
prelude. See prastava.
pressing-stones, (gravan), are of Brihati nature, V, 243; the vital airs, 486.
priests, officiating, are the limbs of the Sacrifice, IV, 280; V, 236; are of the same world as the Sacrificer,I V, 280; must not bargain for dakshinas, 280 ; sixteen, 348; the order in which theseare initiated for a sattra, V, 135 seq.; messes of rice for them, 343; the quarters (regions) parcelled out between them, 402, 412, 420;—priest’s mess of rice, see brahmaudana.
prishtéa-saman, six, III, introd. xxxxiii; V, 148 n.; seven, IV, 277, 314 prishza-stotra, III, introd. xvi, xx seq., 333, 376; are the seasons,
331.
prisbtya-graha, belongs to Agni,
Indra, and Sdrya, III, 6.
prishthya-shadaha, III, introd. xxi; V, 148; used by Aagiras when contending with Adityas, V, 152; etymology, 152, 162.
Prithin Vainya, consecrated first of men, III, 81.
Priyavrata Rauhivdyana, directs the wind, IV, 340.
procreation. See generation.
prospering-oblations. See kalpa.
Proti Kausambeya Kausurubindi, residing as religious student
‘ with Uddalaka Aruai, V, 153. prushva (mist, moisture, or hoarfrost), III, 77. unaryaga, IV, r21.
Priyavrata Rauhivdyana, directs the wind, IV, 340.
procreation. See generation.
prospering-oblations. See kalpa.
Proti Kausambeya Kausurubindi, residing as religious student
‘ with Uddalaka Aruai, V, 153. prushva (mist, moisture, or hoarfrost), III, 77. unaryaga, IV, r21.
punastiti on fifth layer of fire-altar, IV, 99, 119 seq.; is seed and generative power, 119; etymology, 121; on what part of the altar to be laid, 121; is the uttaravedi, 121; as substitute for complete altar, 271.
Pufigikasthala, the Apsaras, is the
(eastern) quarter, or (Agni’s)
army, IV, ros.
Purdaa (stories of old time), to be studied, V, 98; the Veda of birds, 369.
puraskarana, IV, 337.
purastad bhaga4, IIT, 333; IV, 185; cf, uddhara.
purisha, III, 201; its formulas are
Agni’s hair, itself his food, 1V,
20; covering of soil, 26; is food,
95, 96, 139; is the pericardium,
96; is flesh, 138, 149; vital air,
139; belongs to Indra, 140; is
one half of the altar, 140; symbolical meaning of its layers
(1st cattle, and birds, 3rd stars,
4th sacrificial gifts, 5th progeny
and subjects, 6th gods), 147
seq.; ‘earth to earth,’ V, 203.
Purishya (Agni, the altar), III, 201; favourable to cattle, cattle-loving, 206, 214; (? rich, plentiful), 310; Agni Purishya, the son of the Earth, 311.
parnahuti, IIT, 42; V, 504.
urohita, one of the ratninad, III, 59; anoints (sprinkles) king in front, 94; hands the sphya to consecrated king, 110; Kshatriya and Purohita alone complete, 259; are everything, 260;
INDEX TO PARTS III, IV, AND V.
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is perfect in sanctity and power, 260; his fire used by king for offering during diksha, V, 371.
Pfiru, an Asura-Rakshas, overthrown by Agni in battles, III, 292.
Purukutsa, the Aikshvaka, performed the Asvamedha, V, 397.
Purfiravas, son of 1da,—Purfravas and Urvasi, V, 68 seq.; wanders about in Kurukshetra, 70; becomes a Gandharva, 74.
purusha,—seven purushas (the seven Rishis) made into one, III, 144; IV, 205;—the Purusha, 304, 305; is Pragapati-Agni, III, 144;—(man) a sacrificial animal, 162; 165 seq.; slaughtered for Visvakarman, 162; has twenty-four limbs, 167; twentyone parts, 172; hornless and bearded, 177; Purusha, IV, introd. xiv seq.; (man in the sun, and in the eye, the gold man), xxii; this divine person (in sun, and eye) is variously served as Agni, Saman, Uktham, &c., IV, 373; (Agni) Vaisvanara is the Purusha, 398; the Agnilike, Arka-like, Uktha-like Purusha, 399; is the true Brahman, 400; Purusha Pragapati, born from golden egg, V, 12; Purusha Narayana exhorted by Prag4pati to sacrifice, 172, 173; is established in five things, 389; Purusha Narayana, 403; Purusha born from Virag, and Virag from Purusha, 403 ;— purushas (men) as victims, 407 seq.;—cf. sun, eye.
Purushamedha, III, introd, xxvi;
V, introd. xxi seq., 403 seq.; five
sutyas, 405; etymology, 407.
Purusha-Narayaza (litany), V, 4103; cf. purusha.
purusha-saman, (III, 369); IV, 146.
purusha-sfikta, IV, introd. xiv.
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are not eaters of oblations, 185 ; without them no dwelling-place becomes pure, 186; they are neither in the sky nor on earth, but whatever breathes therein, 186; connects head with body, 188; in the head fivefold (mind, speech, breath, eye, ear), 190; (praza, breath) is one of the five divisions of vital air (praza) in the head, 190; eight limbs and eight prazas, 190; vital airs kindle (the body), 205; the vital airs are the immortal part of the body, 292; how they are represented in the layers of the altar (Pragapati’s body), 292seq.; by the praza gods eat food, by the apina men, 295; are the perfect (sddhya, blessed) gods, 304; vital air is the light of the body, 326; a hundred and one in the body, 326; is not the immortal element, but something uncertain, 327; are the seven metres, 327-330; vital airs consume him who is hungry and feverish, 347, 348; breath evolved from speech, and from it the eye, 377; triad—Agni, Aditya, Prana—are the eater, the Arka, the Uktha, the Purusha, 398, 399 ;— Vayu, on entering man, is divided into the ten vital airs, V, 3; Asya, ‘the breath of the mouth,’— therefrom the gods created, 13; from the downward breathing (avana) the Asuras, 13; downward breathing abhorred by other breathings, but in it everything that enters the others meets, 19; praza (breath of mouth) is the eater of food, udana (of the nose) fills man, and (of the eyes, ears, &c.) is the giver of food, 31; prana and apana move in a forward and a backward direction respectively, 43 ; praza entering udana and reversely, 83; vyana entering udana, 84; central praza belongs to Indra, 1213 with five breathings (prava, vy4na, apana, ud4na, samana) five Brahmanas (or the father himself) to breathe over child (before navel-string has been cut) to ensure long life, 129, 130; two downward (avana) breathings and udana (by which men rise, ud-yanti), 165; two, five, six, seven,twelve, or thirteen, 168 ; praza and ana, each equal to the twinkling of _ the eye, 169; 10,800 breathings of man in day and night, 170; praza and udana, moving downward and upward, 230; all vital airs established on speech, 246; all vital airs established on praza and udana, 262; etymology (pra-ni), 263; nostrils are the path of praza, 263 ; food eaten by praza is pervaded by vyana, and its essence shed as seed, 264; vital airs of him who speaks impure speech pass away, 326; the mind (soul) their overlord, 504.
prazabhrit, bricks, are the vital airs, IV, 1; how placed, 2; laid down by tens, 3; etymology 123; are the limbs, 13 :—ot second layer, 23, 33 seq.;—ten of third layer, 51; are the moon (being food as making up a virag), 54.
pramitaé, lustral water, is the head of the sacrifice, V, 35, 492; at the haviryagina, 119; etymology, 270.
prasalavi. See pradakshizam.
prastava,— prastava and nidhana, IV, 145, 146.
Prastotri, a horse his fee at Dasapeya,
III, rr9; under Udgatri, V, 136.
pramitaé, lustral water, is the head of the sacrifice, V, 35, 492; at the haviryagina, 119; etymology, 270.
prasalavi. See pradakshizam.
prastava,— prastava and nidhana, IV, 145, 146.
Prastotri, a horse his fee at Dasapeya,
III, rr9; under Udgatri, V, 136.
prataranuvaka, III, introd. xviii; IV, 249; of Atiratra superseded by Asvina-sastra, but is to be repeated in a low voice by Maitravaruaa, V, 92, 93.
Pratidarsa Aibhavata (king of the
Svikna), as authority on the
Sautramani, V, 239.
Pratihart,i, priest, is under Udgitri,
V, 137. Pratipiya. See Balhika. - Pratiprasthatri, III, 111; gold mirror his fee at Dasapeya, 119; is under Adhvaryu, V, 137; offers the cups of Surd4-liquor on the Southern of the two
p. 560
SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
Eastern fires, 232; Pratiprasthatri (or Neshéri) leads up the king’s wives, 321.
pratish¢44 (stand), is threefold (tripod), IV, 116.
praiiga-sastra, connected with Indra, the Rudras, the South, &c., IV,
101,
Pravargya, III, 355; IV, 187; ‘setting out,’ 1V, 187; V, 493 seq.; Pravargya vessels are Agni, Vayu, and Aditya, IV, 187; the head of the Sacrifice, 188; performed as long as the Upasads, 317; is the sun, 317; V, 445; on Satarudriya day, day of preparation, and sutya day, 1V, 320 ;—performance, V, 441 seqq.; time of performance, 458; is Vayu- Pfishan, 475; when performed, 490 seq.; combined with Upasad, 493; is the year, the worlds (and Agni, Vayu, and Sfirya), the Sacriticer, &c., 507 seq.
prayaga, mystic significance of, V, 40.
prayana, III, 305.
prayaniya offering, III, 325; ends with the Samyos, LV, 258, 259; —Priyantya Atiratra, 254.
prayugaz havimshi (twelve oblations of teams), III, 123; for yoking the seasons, 123.
prelude. See prastava.
pressing-stones, (gravan), are of Brihati nature, V, 243; the vital airs, 486.
priests, officiating, are the limbs of the Sacrifice, IV, 280; V, 236; are of the same world as the Sacrificer,I V, 280; must not bargain for dakshinas, 280 ; sixteen, 348; the order in which theseare initiated for a sattra, V, 135 seq.; messes of rice for them, 343; the quarters (regions) parcelled out between them, 402, 412, 420;—priest’s mess of rice, see brahmaudana.
prishtéa-saman, six, III, introd. xxxxiii; V, 148 n.; seven, IV, 277, 314 prishza-stotra, III, introd. xvi, xx seq., 333, 376; are the seasons,
331.
prisbtya-graha, belongs to Agni,
Indra, and Sdrya, III, 6.
prishthya-shadaha, III, introd. xxi; V, 148; used by Aagiras when contending with Adityas, V, 152; etymology, 152, 162.
Prithin Vainya, consecrated first of men, III, 81.
Priyavrata Rauhivdyana, directs the wind, IV, 340.
procreation. See generation.
prospering-oblations. See kalpa.
Proti Kausambeya Kausurubindi, residing as religious student
‘ with Uddalaka Aruai, V, 153. prushva (mist, moisture, or hoarfrost), III, 77. unaryaga, IV, r21.
Priyavrata Rauhivdyana, directs the wind, IV, 340.
procreation. See generation.
prospering-oblations. See kalpa.
Proti Kausambeya Kausurubindi, residing as religious student
‘ with Uddalaka Aruai, V, 153. prushva (mist, moisture, or hoarfrost), III, 77. unaryaga, IV, r21.
punastiti on fifth layer of fire-altar, IV, 99, 119 seq.; is seed and generative power, 119; etymology, 121; on what part of the altar to be laid, 121; is the uttaravedi, 121; as substitute for complete altar, 271.
Pufigikasthala, the Apsaras, is the
(eastern) quarter, or (Agni’s)
army, IV, ros.
Purdaa (stories of old time), to be studied, V, 98; the Veda of birds, 369.
puraskarana, IV, 337.
purastad bhaga4, IIT, 333; IV, 185; cf, uddhara.
purisha, III, 201; its formulas are
Agni’s hair, itself his food, 1V,
20; covering of soil, 26; is food,
95, 96, 139; is the pericardium,
96; is flesh, 138, 149; vital air,
139; belongs to Indra, 140; is
one half of the altar, 140; symbolical meaning of its layers
(1st cattle, and birds, 3rd stars,
4th sacrificial gifts, 5th progeny
and subjects, 6th gods), 147
seq.; ‘earth to earth,’ V, 203.
Purishya (Agni, the altar), III, 201; favourable to cattle, cattle-loving, 206, 214; (? rich, plentiful), 310; Agni Purishya, the son of the Earth, 311.
parnahuti, IIT, 42; V, 504.
urohita, one of the ratninad, III, 59; anoints (sprinkles) king in front, 94; hands the sphya to consecrated king, 110; Kshatriya and Purohita alone complete, 259; are everything, 260;
INDEX TO PARTS III, IV, AND V.
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is perfect in sanctity and power, 260; his fire used by king for offering during diksha, V, 371.
Pfiru, an Asura-Rakshas, overthrown by Agni in battles, III, 292.
Purukutsa, the Aikshvaka, performed the Asvamedha, V, 397.
Purfiravas, son of 1da,—Purfravas and Urvasi, V, 68 seq.; wanders about in Kurukshetra, 70; becomes a Gandharva, 74.
purusha,—seven purushas (the seven Rishis) made into one, III, 144; IV, 205;—the Purusha, 304, 305; is Pragapati-Agni, III, 144;—(man) a sacrificial animal, 162; 165 seq.; slaughtered for Visvakarman, 162; has twenty-four limbs, 167; twentyone parts, 172; hornless and bearded, 177; Purusha, IV, introd. xiv seq.; (man in the sun, and in the eye, the gold man), xxii; this divine person (in sun, and eye) is variously served as Agni, Saman, Uktham, &c., IV, 373; (Agni) Vaisvanara is the Purusha, 398; the Agnilike, Arka-like, Uktha-like Purusha, 399; is the true Brahman, 400; Purusha Pragapati, born from golden egg, V, 12; Purusha Narayana exhorted by Prag4pati to sacrifice, 172, 173; is established in five things, 389; Purusha Narayana, 403; Purusha born from Virag, and Virag from Purusha, 403 ;— purushas (men) as victims, 407 seq.;—cf. sun, eye.
Purushamedha, III, introd, xxvi;
V, introd. xxi seq., 403 seq.; five
sutyas, 405; etymology, 407.
Purusha-Narayaza (litany), V, 4103; cf. purusha.
purusha-saman, (III, 369); IV, 146.
purusha-sfikta, IV, introd. xiv.
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