Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 5.1.2

5.1.2.1

aṃśuṃ gṛhṇāti | sarvatvāyaiva tasmādvā aṃśuṃ gṛhṇātyathaitānprajñātānevāgniṣṭomikāngrahāngṛhṇātyāgrayaṇāt

He draws the Amsu (graha), just for completeness’ sake, for it is therefor that he draws the Amsu. After that he draws those recognised Agnishtoma cups up to the Âgrayana.
2, He then draws the Prishthyas: and whatever the gods (Agni, Indra, and Sûrya) won by them, even that he wins by them.

5.1.2.2

atha pṛṣṭhyāngṛhṇāti | tadyadevaitairdevā udajayaṃstadevaiṣa etairujjayati

5.1.2.3

atha ṣoḍaśinaṃ gṛhṇāti | tadyadevaitenendra udajayattadevaiṣa etenojjayati

He then draws the Shodasin: and whatever Indra won thereby, even that he (the sacrificer) wins thereby.

5.1.2.4

athaitānpañca vājapeyagrahāngṛhṇāti | dhruvasadaṃ tvā nṛṣadam manaḥsadamupayāmagṛhīto 'sīndrāya tvā juṣṭaṃ gṛhṇāmyeṣa te yonirindrāya tvā juṣṭatamamiti sādayatyeṣāṃ vai lokānāmayameva dhruva iyam pṛthivīmamevaitena lokamujjayati

He then draws those five Vâgapeya cups (for Indra; the first) with the text (V. S. IX, 2), 'Thee, the firm-seated, the man-seated, the mind-seated! Thou art taken with a support: I take thee, agreeable to Indra! This is thy womb' (i.e. thy home): thee, most agreeable to Indra!' therewith he deposits it; for of these worlds this one, to wit the earth, is the firm one: this same world he thereby wins.

5.1.2.5

apsuṣadam tvā ghṛtasadaṃ vyomasadamupayāmagṛhīto 'sīndrāya tvā juṣṭaṃ gṛhṇāmyeṣa te yonirindrāya tvā juṣṭatamamiti sādayatyeṣāṃ vai lokānāmayameva vyomedamantarikṣamantarikṣalokamevaitenojjayati

[The second with,] 'Thee, the water-seated, the ghee-seated, the ether-seated! Thou art taken with a support: I take thee, agreeable to Indra! This is thy womb: thee most agreeable to Indra!' therewith he deposits it; for among these worlds that ether (mentioned in the formula) is this air: he thereby wins this air-world.

5.1.2.6

pṛthivisadaṃ tvāntarikṣasadaṃ divisadaṃ devasadaṃ nākasadamupayāmagṛhīto 'sīndrāya tvā juṣṭaṃ gṛhṇāmyeṣa te yonirindrāya tvā juṣṭatamamiti sādayatyeṣa vai devasannākasadeṣa eva devaloko devalokamevaitenojjayati

[The third with,] 'Thee, the earth-seated, the air-seated, the sky-seated, the god-seated, the heaven-seated! Thou art taken with a support: I take thee, agreeable to Indra! This is thy womb: thee, most agreeable to Indra!' therewith he deposits it; for god-seated, heaven-seated indeed is yonder world of the gods: the world of the gods he thereby wins.

5.1.2.7

apāṃ rasamudvayasaṃ sūrye santaṃ samāhitamapāṃ rasasya yo rasastaṃ vo gṛhṇāmyuttamamupayāmagṛhīto 'sīndrāya tvā juṣṭaṃ gṛhṇāmyeṣa te yonirindrāya tvā juṣṭatamamiti sādayatyeṣa vā apāṃ raso yo 'yam pavate sa eṣa sūrye samāhitaḥ sūryātpavata etamevaitena rasamujjayati

[The fourth with V. S. IX, 3,] 'The waters’ invigorating essence, being contained in the sun,--that which is the essence of the waters’ essence, that, the most excellent, I take for you! Thou art taken with a support: I take thee, agreeable to Indra! This is thy womb: thee, most agreeable to Indra!' therewith he deposits it; for the waters’ essence is he that blows (or purifies) yonder (the wind), and he is contained in the sun, he blows from the sun: that same essence he thereby wins.

5.1.2.8

grahā ūrjāhutayaḥ | vyanto viprāya matiṃ teṣāṃ viśipriyāṇāṃ vo 'hamiṣamūrjaṃ samagrabhamupayāmagṛhīto 'sīndrāya tvā juṣṭameṣa te yonirindrāya tvā juṣṭatamamiti sādayatyūrgvai raso rasamevaitenojjayati

[The fifth with IX, 4,] 'Ye cups, of strengthening libations, inspiring the sage with thought,--I have gathered together the pith and sap of you, the handleless! Thou art taken with a support: thee, agreeable to Indra! This is thy womb: thee, most agreeable to Indra!' therewith he deposits it;--pith means essence: it is the essence he thereby wins.

5.1.2.9

tānvā etān | pañca vājapeyagrahāngṛhṇāti prajāpatiṃ vā eṣa ujjayati yo vājapeyena yajate saṃvatsaro vai prajāpatiḥ pañca vā ṛtavaḥ saṃvatsarasya tatprajāpatimujjayati tasmātpañca vājapeyagrahāngṛhṇāti

These, then, are five Vâgapeya cups he draws; for he who offers the Vâgapeya wins Pragâpati; and Pragâpati is the year, and there are five seasons in the year,--he thus wins Pragâpati: therefore he draws five Vâgapeya cups.

5.1.2.10

atha saptadaśa somagrahāngṛhṇāti | saptadaśa surāgrahānprajāpatervā ete andhasī yatsomaśca surā ca tataḥ satyaṃ śrīrjyotiḥ somo 'nṛtam pāpmā tamaḥ suraite evaitadubhe andhasī ujjayati sarvaṃ vā eṣa idamujjayati yo vājapeyena yajate prajāpatiṃ hyujjayati sarvamu hyevedam prajāpatiḥ

He (the Adhvaryu) then draws seventeen (other) cups of Soma, and (the Neshtri) seventeen cups of Surâ (spirituous liquor), for to Pragâpati belong these two (saps of) plants, to wit the Soma and the Surâ;--and of these two the Soma is truth, prosperity, light; and the Surâ untruth, misery, darkness: both these (saps of) plants he thereby wins; for he who offers the Vâgapeya wins everything here, since he wins Pragâpati, and Pragâpati indeed is everything here.

5.1.2.11

sa yatsaptadaśa | somagrahāngṛhṇāti saptadaśo vai prajāpatiḥ prajāpatiryajñaḥ sa yāvāneva yajño yāvatyasya mātrā tāvataivāsyaitatsatyaṃ śriyaṃ jyotirujjayati

Now as to why he draws seventeen cups of Soma;--Pragâpati is seventeenfold, Pragâpati is the sacrifice: as great as the sacrifice is, as great as is its measure, with that much he thus wins its truth, its prosperity, its light.

5.1.2.12

atha yatsaptadaśa | surāgrahāngṛhṇāti saptadaśo vai prajāpatiḥ prajāpatiryajñaḥ sa yāvāneva yajño yāvatyasya mātrā tāvataivāsyaitadanṛtam pāpmānaṃ tama ujjayati

And why he draws seventeen cups of Surâ;--Pragâpati is seventeenfold, Pragâpati is the sacrifice: as great as the sacrifice is, as great as is its measure, with that much he thus wins its untruth, its misery, its darkness.

5.1.2.13

ta ubhaye catustriṃśadgrahāḥ sampadyante | trayastriṃśadvai devāḥ prajāpatiścatustriṃśastatprajāpatimujjayati

These two amount to thirty-four cups; for there are thirty-three gods, and Pragâpati is the thirty-fourth: he thus wins Pragâpati.

5.1.2.14

atha yatra rājānaṃ krīṇāti | taddakṣiṇataḥ prativeśataḥ keśavātpuruṣātsīsena parisrutaṃ krīṇāti na vā eṣa strī na pumānyatkeśavaḥ puruṣo yadaha pumāṃstena na strī yadu keśavastena na pumānnaitadayo na hiraṇyaṃ yatsīsaṃ naiṣa somo na surā yatparisruttasmātkeśavātpuruṣātsīsena parisrutaṃ krīṇāti

Now when he buys the king (Soma), he at the same time buys for a piece of lead the Parisrut (immature spirituous liquor) from a long-haired man near by towards the south. For a long-haired man is neither man nor woman; for, being a male, he is not a woman; and being long-haired (a eunuch), he is not a man. And that lead is neither iron nor gold; and the Parisrut-liquor is neither Soma nor Surâ: this is why he buys the Parisrut for a piece of lead from a long-haired man.

5.1.2.15

atha pūrvedyuḥ | dvau kharau kurvanti puro 'kṣamevānyam paścādakṣamanyaṃ netsomagrahāṃśca surāgrahāṃśca saha sādayāmeti tasmātpūrvedyurdvau kharau kurvanti puro 'kṣamevānyam paścādakṣamanyam

And on the preceding day they prepare two earth-mounds, the one in front of the axle, and the other behind the axle: 'Lest we should deposit together the cups of Soma, and the cups of Surâ,'--this is why, on the preceding day, they prepare two mounds, one in front, and the other behind the axle.

5.1.2.16

atha yatra pūrvayā dvārā | vasatīvarīḥ prapādayanti tadaparayā dvārā neṣṭā parisrutam prapādayati dakṣiṇataḥ pātrāṇyabhyavaharanti puro 'kṣameva pratyaṅṅāsīno 'dhvaryuḥ somagrahāngṛhṇāti paścādakṣam prāṅāsīno neṣṭā surāgrahāntsomagrahamevādhvaryurgṛhṇāti surāgrahaṃ neṣṭā somagrahamevādhvaryurgṛhṇāti surāgrahaṃ neṣṭvevamevainānvyatyāsaṃ gṛhṇītaḥ

Now, when they take the Vasatîvarî water (into the havirdhâna shed) by the front door, the Neshtri takes in the Parisrut-liquor by the back door. From the south they bring in the drinking vessels. The Adhvaryu, seated in front of the axle, with his face towards the west, draws the cups of Soma; and the Neshtri, seated behind the axle, with his face towards the east, draws the cups of Surâ. The Adhvaryu draws a cup of Soma, the Neshtri a cup of Surâ; the Adhvaryu draws a cup of Soma, the Neshtri a cup of Surâ: in this way they draw them alternately.

5.1.2.17

na pratyañcamakṣamadhvaryuḥ | somagrahamatiharati na prāñcamakṣaṃ neṣṭā surāgrahaṃ nejjyotiśca tamaśca saṃsṛjāveti

Neither does the Adhvaryu hold the Soma-cup beyond the axle towards the back, nor the Neshtri the Surâ-cup beyond the axle towards the front, thinking, 'Lest we should confound light and darkness!'

5.1.2.18

uparyuparyevākṣamadhvaryuḥ | somagrahaṃ dhārayatyadho 'dho 'kṣaṃ neṣṭā surāgrahaṃ sampṛcau sthaḥ sam mā bhadreṇa pṛṅktamiti netpāpamiti bravāveti tau punarviharato vipṛcau stho vi mā pāpmanā pṛṅktamiti tadyatheṣīkām muñjādvivṛhedevamenaṃ sarvasmātpāpmano vivṛhatastasminna tāvaccanaino bhavati yāvattṛṇasyāgraṃ tau sādayataḥ

The Adhvaryu holds the Soma-cup just over the axle, and the Neshtri the Surâ-cup just below the axle, with (V. S. IX, 4), 'United ye are: unite me with happiness!' Thinking, 'Lest we should say "evil",' they withdraw them again, with, 'Disunited ye are: disunite me from evil!' Even as one might tear a single reed from a clump of reed-grass, so do they thereby tear him from out of all evil: there is not in him so much sin as the point of a grass-blade. They deposit the two (cups each time on the mounds).

5.1.2.19

athādhvaryuḥ | hiraṇyapātreṇa madhugrahaṃ gṛhṇāti tam madhye somagrahāṇāṃ sādayatyathokthyaṃ gṛhṇātyatha dhruvamathaitāntsomagrahānuttame stotra ṛtvijāṃ camaseṣu vyavanīya juhvati tānbhakṣayantyatha mādhyandine savane madhugrahasya ca surāgrahāṇāṃ codyate tasyātaḥ

Thereupon the Adhvaryu draws the Madhu-graha (honey-cup) in a golden vessel, and deposits it in the middle of the Soma-grahas. He then draws the Ukthya, then the Dhruva. And when, at the last chant (of the evening press feast), he has poured those Soma-grahas one by one into the cups of the officiating priests, they make offering and drink them. At the midday-pressing it is told regarding the honey-cup, and the cups of Surâ: thereof then.