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Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 7.1.2.11

Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 7.1.2.11

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7.1.2.11

tā vai sāyam prātarādadhāti | ahnaśca hi tadrātreścānnamasravattānyetāni sarvasminneva saṃvatsare syuḥ saṃvatsaro hi sa prajāpatiryasmāttānyudakrāmaṃstadasminnetatsarvasminneva sarvaṃ dadhāti yasminhāsyaitadato na kuryānna hāsya tasminnetaddadhyānnāsaṃvatsarabhṛtasyekṣakeṇa cana bhavitavyamiti ha smāha vāmakakṣāyaṇo nedimam pitaram prajāpatiṃ vicidyamānam paśyānīti taṃ saṃvatsare sarvaṃ kṛtsnaṃ saṃskatyordhvamucrayati yathaivainamado devā udaśrayan

He puts them on in the evening and morning, for the food both of the day and the night was flowing out. These same (ceremonies) should be (performed) during a whole year, for that Pragâpati whence those (substances) went out is the year: into that whole (Pragâpati) he thus puts all that (which belongs to him). And in whatever part of this (year) he should therefore not do so, into that part of him (Pragâpati) he would not put that (which belongs therein). 'One must not even be a looker-on at the (building up of a fire) not carried about for a year,' Vâmakakshâyana was wont to say, 'lest he should see this our father Pragâpati being torn to pieces.' He restores him so as to be whole and complete, and raises him to stand upright, even as the gods then raised him.

Julius Eggeling 1882, The Satapatha-Brahmana according to the Text of the Mâdhyandina School (SBE 12, 26, 41, 43, 44)

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