Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 13.6.2.20

13.6.2.20

athātmannagnī samārohya uttaranārāyaṇenādityamudasthāyānapekṣamāṇo'raṇyamabhipreyāttadeva manuṣyebhyastiro bhavati yadyu grāme vivatsedaraṇyoragnī samārohyottaranārāyaṇenaivādityamupasthāya gṛheṣu pratyavasyedatha tānyajñakratūnāhareta yānabhyāpnuyātsa vā eṣa na sarvasmā anuvaktavyaḥ sarvaṃ hi puruṣamedho netsarvasmā'iva sarvam bravāṇīti yo nveva jñātastasmai brūyādatha yo'nūcāno'tha yo'sya priyaḥ syānnaittveva sarvasmā iva

And having taken up the two fires within his own self, and worshipped the sun with the Uttara-Nârâyana (litany, viz. Vâg. S. XXXI, 17-22), let him betake himself to the forest without looking round; and that (place), indeed, is apart from men. But should he wish to live in the village, let him take up again the two fires in the churning-sticks, and having worshipped the sun with the Uttara-Nârâyana (litany) let him dwell at his home, and let him offer such sacrifices as he may be able to afford. But, indeed, this (sacrifice) is not to be imparted to any and every one, lest one should impart everything to any and every one, for the Purushamedha is everything; but one may only impart it to one who is known to him, and who is versed in sacred writ, and who may be dear to him, but not to any and every one. I. 1. To the priesthood (he consecrates) a Brâhmana--2. To the nobility a Kshatriya--3. To the Maruts a Vaisya--4. To penance (hardship, tapas) a Sidra--5. To darkness a thief--6. To hell a man-slayer--7. To evil a eunuch--8. To barter an unchaste woman (ayobhû)--9. To desire a harlot (pumskalû)--10. To the shriek (atikrushta) a minstrel (mâgadha)--11. To dancing a herald (bard, sûta)--12. To singing an actor (sailûsha)--13. To the law a counsellor (sabhâkara)--14. To joking a timorous man--15. To fun (narma) a chatterer--16. To laughter (hasa) an artizan (kâri,? singer of praises)--17. To pleasure (ânanda) a woman's friend--18. To enjoyment a maiden's son--19.

To skill a wheelwright--20. To perseverance a carpenter--21. To heat (tapas) a potter--22. To craft a mechanic--23. To handsome form a jeweller--24. To beauty a barber --25. To the arrow-shot an arrow-maker--26. To the weapon a bow-maker--27. To work a bowstring-maker--28. To fate a rope-maker--29. To death a huntsman--30. To the end (antaka) a dog-keeper--31. To rivers a fisherman (pauñgishtha)--32. To the ogress (of waste lands) a Nishâda --33. To the man-tiger (? werwolf) a mono-maniac--34. To the Gandharvas and Apsaras a roving outcast (vrâtya)--35. To the teams (? prayug) a madman--36. To serpents and demons a blockhead (? apratipad)--37. To dice a gambler--38. To impassibility a non-gambler--39. To the devils (pisâkas) a female cane-worker (basket-maker)--40. To the hobgoblins (yâtudhâna) a female worker in thorns--41. To intercourse a gallant--42. To the house a paramour--43. To trouble an unmarried elder brother whose younger brother is married--44. To calamity a younger brother married before his elder brother--45. To failure the husband of a younger sister whose elder sister is unmarried--46. To reparation an artiste in embroidery--47. To agreement a female practiser of love-spells--48. To garrulity (prakâmodya) an attendant.

II. 1. To colour a devoted adherent--2. To strength a giver of gifts--3. To excrescences hunchback--4. To merriment a dwarf--5. To the doors a lame one --6. To sleep a blind one--7. To injustice a deaf one--8. To the means of purification (? purging) a physician--9. To knowledge a star-gazer--10. To desire of learning one who asks questions--11. To the desire of adding to one's knowledge one given to ask questions about (everything). III. 1. To the bounds (of land or propriety) an arbitrator--2. To ruins an elephant-keeper--3. To speed a groom--4. To thrift a cowherd--5. To vigour a shepherd--6. To fiery mettle a goatherd--7. To refreshment (? food) a cultivator of the soil--8. To the sweet beverage (? nectar) the distiller of liquor--9. To happiness the guardian of a house--10. To prosperity a possessor of wealth--11. To superintendence an assistant doorkeeper. IV. 1. To the light a gatherer of fire-wood--2: To brilliance a fire-kindler--3. To the sun's sphere a sprinkler (anointer of a king)--4. To the highest heaven a distributer (of portions)--5. To the world of the gods a carver (of portions)--6. To the world of men a scatterer (? seasoner)--7. To all the worlds a pourer out (of drink)--8. To decay and murder a churner --9. To the (animal) sacrifice (or, sacrificial essence) a washer-woman--10. To concupiscence a female dyer--11. To quarrelling one of a thievish disposition.

V. 1. To manslaughter an informer--2. To discrimination a doorkeeper--3. To oversight an assistant doorkeeper --4. To strength (cf. II, 2) an attendant--5. To plenty a servant--6. To the pleasant one speaking pleasantly--7. To security one mounted on a horse--8. To heaven (svarga loka) a dealer out of portions (cf. IV, 5)--9. To the highest heaven a distributer (of portions; cf. IV, 4)--10. To wrath one who makes iron red-hot--11. To anger an absconder (? a yielder, coward). VI. 1. To application a yoker--2. To grief one ready to attack--3. To peaceful dwelling an unyoker--4. To up-hills and down-hills one standing on three legs (of firm character)--5. To bodily form a haughty one (?)--6. To virtue a woman who prepares unguents--7. To calamity (cf. I, 44) a woman who makes scabbards--8. To Yama (the god of death) a barren woman--9. To Yama one who bears twins--10. To Atharvan one who has miscarried--11. To the samvatsara (the first year of the five years’ cycle) one in her courses.

VII. 1. To the parivatsara (the second year) tine who has not yet borne children--2. To the idâvatsara (the third year) one who transgresses (the matrimonial bonds)--3. To the idvatsara (the fourth year) one who oversteps (the bounds of propriety)--4. To the vatsara (the fifth year) one who is worn out--5. To the year a gray-haired one--6. To the Ribhus a furrier--7. To the Sâdhyas a tanner--8. To the lakes a fisherman (dhaivara)--9. To stagnant (waters) a boatsman--10. To pools a Bainda --11. To reed-marshes one living on dried meat (or fish). VIII. 1. To the opposite bank a 'mârgâra '--2. To the near bank a fisherman (kevarta)--3. To shallows an Ânda --4. To uneven (? deep) places a fisher (mainâla)--5. To sounds (svana) a Parnaka --6. To caverns a Kirâta (woodman)--7. To mountain-ridges a Gambhaka --8. To the mountains a Kimpurusha --9. To loathing a Paulkasa --10. To colour a worker in gold (cf. I, 23)--11. To the balance (pair of scales) a merchant. IX. 1. To the latter part of the evening one exhausted--2. To all beings (spirits) a leper (sidhmala)--3. To good fortune a wakeful one--4. To ill-fortune a sleepy one--5. To trouble (cf. I, 43) a newsmonger--6. To adversity a spiritless one--7. To collapse a waster --8. To the king of dice a gambler (cf. I, 37)--9. To the Krita (-die) one who takes advantage of mistakes in the game --10. To the Tretâ (-die) one who plays on a (regular) plan --11. To the Dvâpara (-die) one who plans to over-reach (his fellow-player).

X. 1. To the Âskanda (-die) a post of the gaming-room --2. (cf. I, 29) one who 'approaches' a cow--3. To the end (antaka, cf. I, 30) a cow-slayer--4. To hunger one who goes begging of one cutting up a cow--5. To evil-doing a Karaka-teacher--6. To evil (cf. I, 7) a robber--7. To the echo a reviler--8. To the noise a growler--9. To the end (anta) a babbler--10. To the endless a dumb one--11. To articulate sound (sabda) a drum-beater. XI. 1. To festive joy a lute-player--2. To the cry a flute-player--3. To the confused (noise) a conch-blower--4. To the forest a forester--5. To broken woodlands one who watches woods on fire--6. To fun (narma I, 15) a harlot (I, 9)--7. To laughter an artizan (I, 16)--8. To the sea-monster (?) a mottled woman (?)--9-11. To power a village-headman, an astrologer, and a herald (? abhikrosaka).

XII. (Added to those at the second post):--1-3. To dancing (I, 11) a lute-player (XI, I), a hand-clapper, and a flute-player (XI, 2)--4. To pleasure (I, 17) a musician--5. To fire a fat man--6. To the earth a cripple--7. To the wind a Kândâla (outcast)--8. To the air a staff-dancer --9. To the sky a bald-headed one-to. To the sun a yellow-eyed one-11. To the stars one of variegated colour--12. To the moon a leprous one (kilâsa, cf. IX, 2)--13. To the day a light-coloured one with yellow eyes--14. To the night a black one with yellow eyes.--He then seizes these eight misshapen ones--15. One who is too tall--16. One too short--17. One too stout--18. One too lean--19. One too light-coloured--20. One too black--21. One too bald--22. One with too much hair:--these (are to be) neither Sûdras nor Brâhmanas, and are sacred to Pragâpati;--23. A minstrel (mâgadha, I, 10)--24. A harlot (pumskalî, cf. I, 9)--25. A gambler (I, 37)--26. A eunuch (I, 7):--these (also are to be) neither Sûdras nor Brâhmanas, and are sacred to Pragâpati.

Viz. by thrice inhaling the heat (or smoke) emitted by the fires, Cf. Mânava-Dh. VI, 38; Baudhâyana-Dharmas. II, 17, 26.

The patronymic, or matronymic, of this, 'âyobhava' is said to be the son of a Sûdra from a Vaisya woman.

Or, as Mahîdhara takes 'subhe vapam,' to well-being the seed-sower--einen Sämann dein Gedeihen, Weber.

One of the wild aboriginal tribesmen.

îryatâ, lit. the state of one requiring to be roused.

'envy' St. Petersb. Dict. (arâddhi),

The meaning of 'utsâda' is doubtful; it might be 'removal,' only the etymological meaning of 'ut-sad' having probably suggested the combination.

Mahîdhara takes 'srâma' in the sense of one affected with ophthalmia (cf. srâva): in both senses the association of ideas is intelligible, though apparently (as in other cases) of a jocular nature.

Or, the assistant of a charioteer, according to Mah. and Sây. (cf. V, 3).

Mahîdhara takes 'prakaritri' in the sense of 'viksheptri'; Sây. in that of 'sower of discord.'

Sây. makes 'upasektri' a composer of feuds (!).

'a stirrer up of discord,' Sây.

Thus also Mahîdhara; charioteer, Sây.; cf. III, 11.

Yamî, Taitt. Br.

According to Mahîdhara, a wild tribesman (inhabitant of the jungle); 'one living by the net,' Sây.

'The son of a mrigâri (? huntsman),' Mahîdhara; 'one who catches fish with his hands,' Sây.

According to Mahîdhara, the maker of 'bandhanâni (? strings, or dams);'--according to Sây., one who catches fish by means of dikes.

A Bhilla (Bheel, mountaineer, woodman);--one catching fish by means of feathers (parna), Sây.

Apparently a man of a voracious, flesh-eating tribe.

Apparently a low, despicable man.

Explained as one of very low birth, or more particularly, as the son of a Nishâda from a Kshatriya woman.

Lit. a cutter away (? a spendthrift).

Thus Mahîdhara explains 'âdinavadarsa'; 'one who works for his fellow-player's ruin,' St. Petersb. Dict.

The terms 'kalpin' and 'adhikalpin' are of doubtful meaning--'arranger' and 'head-arranger,' Weber.

The terms 'kalpin' and 'adhikalpin' are of doubtful meaning--'arranger' and 'head-arranger,' Weber.

Lit. 'the assailer,' apparently another name for the die usually called Kali. On these dice see part iii, p. 106, note 1.

Explained as a jocular expression for the habitual frequenter of the gambling-house.

St. Petersb. Dict. conjectures 'To lust a sportive woman (? dancer or singer).'

'Vamsanartin' explained by Mahîdhara as one who practises dancing by means of a bamboo-staff (vamsena nartanasîla); by Sây. as one who makes his living by dancing on the top of a bamboo-staff (vamsâgranrittagîvin); hardly a 'family-dancer,' Monier-Williams.