River and Goddess Worship in India by Prasad R. U. S

Author:Prasad, R. U. S.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

14 3.9.1.7

Then one for Sarasvatî. For Sarasvatî is speech: by speech Pragâpati then again strengthened himself; speech turned unto him, speech he made subject to himself. And so does this one now become strong by speech, and speech turns unto him, and he makes speech subject to himself.

(Eggeling, J., trans., 1885, The Satapatha Brahmana Part II (SBE26) at www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbr/index.htm.)

15 Ibid., I.164.41–42.

16 Also see Drury, Naama, 1981, The Sacrificial Ritual in the Satapatha Brahmana, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, pp. 63–64.

17 Aitereya Brahmana, I.27.1, Adhyaya V (The bringing forward of the Soma and the fire) (Keith, A.B., trans., 1920, Aitareya and Kausitaki Brahmanas of the Rigveda, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press).

18 The Agni-pranayana ceremony involves carrying the sacrificial fire to the altar destined for the animal and Soma sacrifices.

19 SB III.2.4.1–7, Fourth Brahmana (Eggeling, J., trans., 1885, The Satapatha Brahmana Part II (SBE26) at www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbr/index.htm).

20 Keith, A.B., trans., 1914, Taittiriya Samhita VI, verse 1.6 at www.sacred-texts.com/hin/#vedas.

21 JB iii.187.

22 Gontier, Jacques, trans., 1990, VAC, Padoux, Andre, New York, State University of New York Press, pp. 8–10.

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