1 That is to say, it ultimately flows back and mingles again with the main current.
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With that (water) he sprinkles him ; and that lord
of rivers (the ocean) being the same as the lord of
waters, he thereby makes him (the king) the lord of
the people. This is one kind of water : it is that
he now brings.
11. He then takes (water from) a whirlpool with,
'Thou art the offspring of the waters, a be-
stower of kingship : bestow thou kingship on
me, hail! — Thou art the offspring of the
waters, a bestower of kingship: bestow thou
kingship on N. N.!' With that (water) he sprinkles.
Now the waters enclose the offspring (embryo) : he
thus makes him the offspring of the people. This
is one kind of water : it is that he now brings.
12. Then what standing pool of flowing water
there is in a sunny spot, that (water) he takes with
(Va£\ S. X, 4), 'Sun-skinned ye are, bestowers
of kingship: bestow ye kingship on me, hail!
— Sun-skinned ye are, bestowers of kingship :
bestow ye kingship on N. N. V With that
(water) he sprinkles : it is with lustre he thereby
sprinkles him, and makes him sun-skinned. Now
it is to Vanma that those waters belong which,
(whilst being part) of flowing water, do not flow ;
and Varu/zas quickening (sava) is that Ra^asuya :
therefore he sprinkles him therewith. This is one
kind of water : it is that he now brings.
13. He then catches such (water) as it rains while
the sun shines, with, ' Lustrous as the sun ye are,
bestowers of kingship: bestow ye kingship
on me, hail ! — Lustrous as the sun ye are,
bestowers of kingship: bestow ye kingship
on N. N. !' With this (water) he sprinkles: it is
with lustre he thereby sprinkles him, and lustrous
V KA2VDA, 3 ADHYAYA, 4 BRAHMAiVA, 1 6. 77
as the sun he thereby makes him. And pure indeed
is such water as it rains while the sun shines, for
before it has reached this (earth), he catches it : he
thus makes him pure thereby. This is one kind of
water : it is that he now brings.
14. He then takes (water) from a pond with,
'Pleasing ye are, bestowers of kingship: be-
stow ye kingship on me! — Pleasing ye are,
bestowers of kingship : bestow ye kingship
on N. N. !' With that (water) he sprinkles: he
thereby makes the people steady and faithful to
him. This is one kind of water : it is that he now
brings.
15. He then draws (water) from a well with,
' Fold-dwellers ye are, bestowers of kingship :
bestow ye kingship on me, hail! — Fold-
dwellers ye are, bestowers of kingship : bestow
ye kingship on N. N.!' With this (water) he
sprinkles. He thereby brings (some of) the water
which is beyond this (earth), and also (he does so)
for the completeness of the waters, this is why he
sprinkles him therewith. This is one kind of water :
it is that he now brings.
1 Saya^a explains ' prushva ' by ' nihara^ ' (mist water), the com- mentators on Katy. XV, 4, 38, by ' hoar-frost/
2 It is difficult to see in what sense the author takes vaja. While Mahidhara (Va£\ S. X, 4) explains it by ' pleasing ' or ' desirable ' (u^yante ^anai^ kamyante*nnanishpattihetutvat); Saya/za leaves a choice between that meaning (sarvaiA kamyamana) and that of ' obedient, submissive ' (yadva va^ya stha, niharo hi nadipravahavan manushyadigatim na pratibadhnati, ato va^yatvam prushva/zam an- nadyatmakatvam upapadayati; MS. I. O. 657). The St. Peters- burg dictionary gives the meaning ' submissive/ but leaves it doubtful whether it may not be derived from va^a, ' fat, grease/
7 8 S ATAP ATH A-BR AHM ANA.
ye are, bestowers of kingship: bestowye king-
ship on me, hail! — Devoted ye are, bestowers
of kingship: bestow ye kingship on N. N. ! '
With that (water) he sprinkles : it is with food he
thereby consecrates him, and food he thereby
bestows upon him. For even as this fire burns up
(the wood) so does that sun yonder, even in rising,
burn up the plants, the food. But those waters
coming down, quench that (heat), for if those waters
were not to come down, there would be no food left
remaining here : it is with food he thus sprinkles
him. This is one kind of water : it is that he now
brings.
17. He then takes honey with, 'Most powerful
ye are, bestowers of kingship: bestow ye
kingship on me, hail! — Most powerful ye are,
bestowers of kingship : bestow ye kingship
on N. N. !' With this (water) he sprinkles, and it
is by the essence of the waters and plants that he
thereby sprinkles him. This is one kind of water :
it is that he now brings.
18. He then takes embryonic (waters) of a calving
cow with, 'Mighty ye are, bestowers of king-
ship : bestow yekingship on me, hail ! — Mighty
ye are, bestowers of kingship: bestow ye
kingship on N.N.!' With that (water) he
sprinkles : it is with cattle he thereby consecrates
him. This is one kind of water : it is that he now
brings.
19. He then takes milk with, ' Man-supporting
ye are, bestowers of kingship: bestow ye
kingship on me, hail! — Man-supporting ye
are, bestowers of kingship: bestow ye king-
ship on N.N. !' With that (water) he sprinkles:
V KANDA, 3 ADHYAYA, 4 BRAHMAiVA, 24. 79
it is with cattle he thereby consecrates him. This is one kind of water : it is that he now brings.
20. He then takes clarified butter with, * All-
supporting ye are, bestowers of kingship:
bestow ye kingship on me, hail! — All-support-
ing ye are, bestowers of kingship: bestow ye
kingship on N. N.!' With that (water) he
sprinkles : it is with the essence of cattle he thereby
consecrates him. This is one kind of water : it is
that he now brings.
21. Having then caught up (moist) sun-motes
with the hollow of his hands, he mixes them
(with the other kinds of water), with, 'Self-ruling
waters ye are, bestowers of kingship; bestow
ye kingship on N. N. ! ' For those sun-motes are
indeed self-ruling waters, since they are flowing, as
it were, and, not yielding to one another's superiority,
keep being now higher now lower : he thus thereby
bestows self-ruling power upon him. This is one
kind of water : it is that he now brings.
22. These then are seventeen (kinds of) water he
brings together, for Pra^*apati is seventeenfold, and
Pra^apati is the sacrifice : that is why he brings
together seventeen kinds of water.
23. Now sixteen kinds of water are those he offers
upon ; and he offers sixteen oblations : that makes
thirty-two. On two of them he does not offer, viz.
on the water from the Sarasvati and on the sun-
motes : that makes thirty-four. For three and
thirty are the gods, and Pra^apati is the thirty-
fourth : he thus makes him to be Pra^apati (the
lord of creatures).
24. And as to why he takes (water) each time after offering, — the ghee, to be sure, is a thunder-
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bolt : having won them, one by one, by means of that
thunderbolt, the ghee, and made them his own, he
takes them.
25. And as to why he does not offer on the
(water) from the Sarasvati, — Sarasvati, to be sure,
is (the goddess of) Speech, and the ghee is a thunder-
bolt : ' Lest I should injure (the goddess of) Speech ! '
thus (he thinks, and) therefore he does not offer
on the water from the Sarasvatf.
26. And as to why he does not offer on the sun-
motes : ' Lest I should offer that oblation in a
doubtful way * ! ' thus (he thinks, and) therefore
he does not offer on the sun-motes.
27. He pours them together into an udumbara
vessel with, ' Let the honey-sweet mix with the
honey-sweet!' — 'Let those full of essence mix
with those full of essence ! ' he thereby says ; —
'Winning great power (kshatra) for the Ksha-
triya ! ' in saying this he prays in a covert way for
power to the Sacrificer.
28. He deposits them in front of the Maitra-
vanma's hearth, with, * Unimpaired rest ye, the
strengthful !' — 'unimpaired by the Rakshas rest
ye ! ' he thereby says ; and by * strengthful ' he
means to say 'powerful;' 'bestowing great
power on the Kshatriya;' — in saying this he
prays in an overt way for power to the Sacrificer.
Fifth Brahma^a.
1. He consecrates him at the midday Soma-feast.
Now Pra^apati is that sacrifice which is here per-
formed, and whence these creatures have been
1 On account of the doubtful nature of the watery sun-motes.
V KANDA, 3 ADHYAYA, 5 BRAHMAiVA, 5. 8 1
produced, — and so they are even now produced after
this one : he thus places him in the very middle of
that Pra^apati, and consecrates him in the middle.
2. Before the Mahendra (cup) has been drawn, —
for that Mahendra cup is Indra's special (nishke-
valya) cup, and so is that Nishkevalya Stotra
(hymn) and Nishkevalya .Sastra (recitation) ; and
the Sacrificer is Indra : he thus consecrates him in
his own resting-place. Hence before the Mihendra
(cup) has been drawn, —
3. He spreads a tiger-skin in front of the Maitr^-
varu/za's hearth1, with (y&g. S. X, 5), 'Thou art
Soma's beauty/ For because when Soma flowed
through Indra he (Indra) thereupon became a tiger,
therefore he is Soma's beauty : this is why he says,
4 Thou art Soma's splendour;' — 'may my beauty
become like unto thine!' He thus bestows the
tiger's beauty on him : therefore he says, ' May my
beauty become like unto thine ! '
4. He then offers the Partha oblations. Now
Przthin Vainya was consecrated first of men. He
desired that he might appropriate to himself all
food. They offered up for him those (oblations),
and he appropriated to himself all the food here on
earth. They would even call forest beasts to him,
saying, ' Come hither thou (beast) so and so, the
king wants to cook thee ! ' Thus he appropriated all
food here on earth ; and verily he appropriates to
himself all food for whom that knows this those
(oblations) are offered.
5. There are twelve of them, — for there are
1 Viz. before the 'waters' deposited there, according to V, 3, 4,28.
8 2 DATAPATH A-BRAHMAiNTA.
twelve months in the year: therefore there are twelve of them.
6. Six he offers before, and six after, the consecra-
tion : he thereby places him in the very middle of
that Pra^apati, and consecrates him in the middle.
7. Now of those which he offers before the
consecration, Brzhaspati is the last (recipient), and
of those which he offers after the consecration,
Indra is the first ; — but Brzhaspati is priestly dignity
(brahma), and Indra is might, vigour: with these two
kinds of vigour he thus encloses him on both sides.
8. Those which he offers before the consecration,
he offers (resp.) with, 'To Agni hail!' — Agni is
brightness (te^as) : with brightness he thus sprinkles
(endows) him ; — 'To Soma hail F — Soma is princely
power (kshatra) : with princely power he thus
sprinkles him; — ' To Savitrz hail ! ' — Savitrz is the
impeller of the gods : impelled by Savitrz he thus
consecrates him ; — ' ToSarasvatihail F — Saras vat!
is Speech : he thus sprinkles him with Speech ; — ' To
Plash an hail!' — Pushan is cattle: with cattle he
thus sprinkles him ; — ' To Brzhaspati hail ! ' — Brz-
haspati is priestly dignity : with priestly dignity he
thus sprinkles him. These he offers before the
consecration : these are called the Agni-named ones.
9. Those which he offers after the consecration,
he offers (resp.) with, 'To Indra hail!' — Indra is
vigour : with vigour he thus sprinkles him ; — ' To
the roar hail!' — roar means vigour: wTith vigour
he thus sprinkles him; — 'To the noise hail!' —
noise means vigour : with vigour he thus sprinkles
him; — 'To Amsa, hail!' — Kmszc is vigour: with
vigour he thus sprinkles him ; — 'To Bhaga hail ! ' —
Bhaga is vigour : with vigour he thus sprinkles
V KANDA, 3 ADHYAYA, 5 BRAHMAiVA, I 3. 83
him; — 'To Aryaman hail!' — he thus makes him
the friend (aryaman) of everything here. These he
offers after the consecration : these are called the
Aditya-named * ones.
10. In front of the Maitravarima's hearth are the
(four) consecration vessels in which that consecration
water is contained 2.
11. There is a pala^a (butea frondosa) one: with
(the water of) that (vessel) a Brahman sprinkles ;
— the Palasa tree is priestly dignity (brahman) : it is
with priestly dignity that he sprinkles (endows) him.
T2. There is an udumbara (ficus glomerata) one :
therewith one of his own (kinsmen, or brothers)
sprinkles. The udumbara tree means sustenance,
(that is) food, and the ' own ' means sustenance, for as
far as a man's own goes, so far he does not hunger :
thereby his ' own ' is sustenance, and therefore one
of his own (kinsmen) sprinkles with an udumbara
(vessel).
13. There is one made of the foot (stem) of the
nyagrodha (ficus indica) : therewith a friendly
(mitrya) Ra^anya sprinkles : for by its feet 3 the