Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa - Knowledge (XXG)

1683: 4126:, as well as on the full moon and the new moon. The fourth chapter treats of human sacrifices, and then of a number of minor rites with special prayers. Then follow the mantras appropriate for the sacrifice of special animals. This is followed by a chapter on expiations and defects in the observance and performance of ceremonies. The eighth and ninth are devoted to the horse sacrifice, which is the grandest ceremony enjoined on householders, especially appropriate for kings, and involves a number of rites and ceremonies (which are fully detailed in the table of contents) as also a number of ovations of different kinds'. 5328:, an ethereal voice that intervenes to halt the proceedings: a sacrificer always eats the victim, man would therefore eat man, not an acceptable act, ergo, no performance'. The 'human sacrifice' was thus symbolic in nature, as were animal sacrifices (e.g. symbolised by plant-based foods offered and consumed in rituals, such as rice-cake; an example is found in 1.6.2.3–4 in the Shatapatha). The verse referred to by Knipe states: 5373:, his three wives, hundreds of attendants, a swift steed with special markings, the special sacrificial grounds near a large quantity of water supplied with a myriad of ritual utensils and materials. The Horse Sacrifice also required types of priests... Only the victorious king could perform the Ashvamedha ... like all of the new or full moon ceremonies this rite had a special significance for the events that followed'. 129: 33: 6091: 5332:

Then a voice said to him, 'Purusha, do not consummate (these human victims): if thou were to consummate them, man (purusha) would eat man.' Accordingly, as soon as fire had been carried round them, he set them free, and offered oblations to the same divinities, and thereby gratified those divinities,

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of the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa 'is divided into Prapāṭhakas which are divided into anuvāka-s. Each anuvāka is a long rhythmic prose passage without any punctuation. Ashṭaka 1 has 8 Prapāṭhakas, Ashṭaka 2 has 8 Prapāṭhakas, Ashṭaka 3 has 12 Prapāṭhakas. All these 28 Prapāṭhakas (8+8+12) have 338 anuvākas

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has a word to say about the human victims being Symbolical... it must be added, however, that Apastambha is very brief and obscure in his remarks, and it would be hazardous to draw a positive conclusion from the insufficient data supplied by him, particularly as the Satapatha Brāhmaṇa is positive on

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of the Taittirīya Brahmana opens with Agnihotra or the establishment of the household fire. This was the first duty of every householder and of a Brahman immediately after being invested with the Brahmanical cord, and marriage. Every householder and his wife had to devote their careful attention to

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The commentator Apastambha (circa 600-300 BCE) has not been listed or discussed in this section as it seems he did not comment on the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa specifically, but rather on sacrificial rites in general, which are detailed in multiple Brāhmaṇas (e.g. as evidenced above, the Purushamedha is

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giving milk have the highest priority. Only after their needs are satisfied the remaining milk... used for the Yajna. This discipline should be maintained for ten days and nights. If the milk remaining is given to the calves at night, then the Deva Rudra is not pleased since he is the lord of the

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for determining favorable times for actions, particularly sacramental or sacred actions like marriage... A system of 28 lunar mansions was used in the Middle East and in China as well. But in the West it was all but forgotten by a greater emphasis on the twelve signs of the Zodiac... Indeed, it

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interpretations, the words of the texts commented on, and stories told to illustrate the sacrificial performance... a mass of old material, partly formulae, partly Brahmana, which had not been incorporated in the Taittiriya Samhita was collected together in the Taittiriya Brahmana, which in part

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he is stated to have raised up the earth from the waters. In the TS (7, 1, 5) this cosmogonic boar, which raised the earth from the primeval waters, is described as a form of Prajāpati. This modification of the myth is further expanded in the TB (1, 1, 3). In the post-Vedic mythology of the

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Rick F. Talbott states that the 'total ceremony of the Ashvamedha lasted over a year with the actual rites surrounding the sacrifice of the chosen horse taking only three days. The Ashvamedha was one of three royal sacrifices in Ancient India. Performance of this great sacrifice required a

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D.M. Knipe states that there 'is no inscriptional or other record that a purusua-medha was ever performed, leading some scholars to suggest it was simply invented to round out sacrificial possibilities... The significance of the entire enterprise is compromised when SB 13.6.2 presents a

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does not mean that the animal is killed. Often the animal which is offered becomes free and it lives on the grass in the common pasture of the community without being controlled by a human. The idea is mentioned in several places in the Yajur Veda'. Other relevant extracts include

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Narasimha is primarily associated with the Puranic legend of destroying the Asura-king Hiranyakashipu to protect the king's devotee son, Prahlada. Further references to Namuchi, considered by Soifer to be the 'prototype' of the Narasimha legend, are made in

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as a Haviryajna, though its chief characteristic in its form as recorded is the offering of Surā . It has two distinct forms, the Kaukili, which is an independent offering, the other the Carakā, an offering which forms part of another offering, as the

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to blow on the wet lands. Then that land was full of gravel (or sand mixed with gravel). He realised that the land was full of peace (and fertile)... The land discovered (or prepared) by the boar (varaha) had the materials needed for performing

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The gods then went to the king of tortoises and said to him, 'O Tortoise-king, thou wilt have to hold the mountain on thy back!' The Tortoise-king agreed, and Indra contrived to place the mountain on the former's back. And the gods and the

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works (e.g. 'Vartika on Sariraka Brāhmaṇa', 'Vartika on Saptanna Brāhmaṇa', and 'Vartika on Udgitha Brāhmaṇa', etc.), are commentaries on specific sacrificial rites enumerated in the Brāhmaṇas, not the Brāhmaṇas themselves.

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That Vishnu affirms on high by his mightiness, he is like a terrible lion that ranges in difficult places, yes, his abode is on the mountain-tops. In this three wide movements, all the worlds find their dwelling

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the subject of the human victims being let off after consecration; though the fact of the Brahmana being much later than the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, may justify the assumption that the practice of the

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Kashyap adds that the 28 Nakshatras - usually clusters rather than single stars - also determine favourable (and unfavourable) times for birth, elaborating that the 'star which is nearest to the

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to the Taittirīya saṁhitā. The main purpose of expounding the brahmana was to complete the incomplete portions of the main saṁhitā. It abounds with hymns... a subtle form of the story of

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May Varuna free us from the sins of cutting valuable trees. As effectively as a bath washes off the sins done by me in handling the residues of the butter used in Yajna.

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requested his preceptor and minister Madhavacharya to write a commentary on the Vedas, so that even common people would be able to understand the meaning of the Vedic

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legend. For example, in the Mahabharata (1.29–31) Garuda seeks the Amrita produced by the churning of the ocean to free himself and his mother from slavery. In the

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10: To those who are the presiding divinities of violent passions, etc., ironsmiths, men who run away with criminals condemned to death, and the like, ditto,...

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12: The Homa called As'vastomiya, in which the fat of the horse is offered between the S'arira and the S'vishtakrit homas, and the Homa with two-footed verses

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is worshipped for accepting and helping animals. By worshipping sun, there is all-round development. The animal offering is possible (without any violence).

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12: To those Devas who preside over tanks, ponds, etc., men who catch fish by putting up embankments (Dhivara), or by hooks (Dasa) and the like, ditto,...

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11: To the wife of Yama, women who have borne twins, to those who preside over the mantras of the Atharva Veda, women who have miscarried, etc., etc.,...

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1: To Devas who claim to be the cases of brahmana, Kshatriya, etc., men of the Brahmana, Kshatriya, and the like castes, are to be sacrificed,...

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11: Invocatory (Puronuvakya) and exhortative (Praisha) mantras to be recited by Maitravaruna in offering clarified butter, wood and Svishtakrita

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4: To those who are the presiding divinities of (abhimani) or delight in promiscuous intercourse (sanghataka), bastards, and the like, ditto,...

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16: To the presiding divinities of dice and of the Satya Yuga, etc., dice-players, those who frequent gambling halls, and the like, ditto,...

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5: To those who preside over rivers, desert places, etc., men of the Kaivarta (fishermen), Nishada (hunters) and the like castes, ditto,...

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5: Questions to be asked by the officiating priests on the 10th day of the twelve-day rite, and the replies thereto hy the householder

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and interpretation of the Vedas. The Nirukta references and lists several Brāhmaṇas as sources, including the Taittirīya Brahmaṇa.

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7: Mantras for obviating defects in the ceremonial for the initiation of a neophyte (Dhiksha) in connexion with the Soma sacrifices

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17: To the presiding divinities of land, fire, etc., men who move on crutches, those of the Chandala caste, and the like, ditto,...

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3: To those who are the presiding divinities of labour, magic, etc., men of the potter, ironsmith, and the like castes, ditto,...

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1: On the Uses of the Chatur-Hotri-mantra, i.e., those used by the four officiating priests Hota, Addharya, Agnidhra, and Brahma

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14: To those who delight in detecting evil delight in splendor, etc., men who are always watchful, very sleepy, etc., ditto,...

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13: To those who preside over sounds, echoes, etc., collectors of news, retailers of incoherent speech, and the like, ditto,...

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7: On the Merits of the Agni-hotra. – The advantages of employing different numbers of rittikas to officiate at different rites

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contains matter more recent than the Samhita, but in part has matter as old as, at any rate, the later portions of that text'.

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10: Mantra (Suktanika) to be repeated by the Hota when the addhvaryyu is about to throw the Darbha grass bundle into the fire

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On Human Sacrifices in Ancient India by Rājendralāla Mitra (1876), Extract from the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa (Prapāṭhaka 4), p.96

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2: Employment of different numbers of priests in different sacrifices, and the application of certain preliminary Mantras

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6: Repetition of mantras on the drops of water as they trickle down from the body of the horse after it has been bathed

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2: To those who claim pre-eminence in singing, dancing, etc., men of the Suta, Sailusha, and the like castes, ditto,...

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Taittiriya Brahmana (Volume 1), translated by R.L. Kashyap (2017), Ashtaka 3, Prapathaka 1, Anuvaka 1, Khandikas 22–23

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punishes only the bad persons appropriately, and rewards the good men, he is learning well the duties of a good king.

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Taittiriya Brahmana (Volume 2), translated by R.L. Kashyap (2017), Ashtaka 2, Prapathaka 7, Anuvaka 15, Khandikas 2–3

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15: To the presiding divinities of wit, song, etc., prostitutes, female players on the Vina, and the like, ditto,...

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Taittiriya Brahmana (Volume 1), translated by R.L. Kashyap (2017), Ashtaka 1, Prapathaka 1, Anuvaka 3, Khandikas 6–7

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13: Mantras for sprinkling curds or milk mixed with honey of the frying pan at the concluding ceremony – Avabhritha

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Puranic encyclopaedia : a comprehensive dictionary with special reference to the epic and Puranic literature

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Taittiriya Brahmana (Volume 2), translated by R.L. Kashyap (2017), Ashtaka 2, Prapathaka 6, Anuvaka 6, Khandika 8

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Taittiriya Brahmana (Volume 2), translated by R.L. Kashyap (2017), Ashtaka 2, Prapathaka 2, Anuvaka 5, Khandika 2

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13: Invocatory and Oblative Mantras for the offering of Omentum, rice cake and clarified butter, each three times

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11: Exhortations (Prayaja Praisha) with reference to the three animals to be sacrifices in the Kaukila Sautramani

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Taittiriya Brahmana (Volume 2), translated by R.L. Kashyap (2017), Ashtaka 2, Prapathaka 1, Anuvaka 1, Khandika 2

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Taittiriya Brahmana (Volume 1), translated by R.L. Kashyap (2017), Ashtaka 1, Prapathaka 2, Anuvaka 3, Khandika 2

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Taittiriya Brahmana (Volume 1), translated by R.L. Kashyap (2017), Ashtaka 1, Prapathaka 4, Anuvaka 2, Khandika 1

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is celebrated for his three strides by which he measures the whole universe'. These so-called 'Vishnu-strides' (

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the maintenance of this fire and to offering to it oblations of butter and the booking thereon of frumenty .'

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2, there are also several references to 'Vishnu steps' or 'Vishnu strides', associated with the Vamana avatar.

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16: Coronation ceremony (continued). Ceremony to be observed on first ascending a care, Rotharohana mantra

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19: On the planting of the sacrificial posts on the day preceding the first day of the Asvamedha ceremony

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19: To the presiding divinities of ugliness, ambition, etc., tall men, short men, and the like, ditto,...

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18: To the presiding divinities of speech, wind, etc., fat men, men of good wind, and the like, ditto,...

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3: Object of offering several animals to each divinity, and of mixing the fat of those animals together

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at their birth-time is the birth-star... Each star has its own deity'. The Nakshatras are detailed in

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Impel the King to take care of the citizens just like a father. Impel the king to extend his kingdom (

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R. Woodard adds that 'the Vedic Sautramani belongs chiefly to Indra, taking its name from his epithet

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day. Yajna means Vishnu (worshipping Vishnu). They perform yajna only for stabilising. They depend on

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there is a person who loves riches and feels that 'may all persons give me riches' he should worship

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16: Mantra for tying the sacrificial animals to the principal post (Upakarana), and an Ishti ordained

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12: Ceremonies to be performed every day during the year that the horse roams about of his own accord

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Mahabharata (translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli, 1883–1896), Book 1, Astika Parva, Chapter XVIII (18)

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6: Creation of the sacrificial cow, the boiling of the sacrificial milk, and the omission of the Homa

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There are four well-known stomas which have to be recited. However because of the (evil) effects of

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5: Exhortative (praisha) mantra to be addressed to the Hota by the slayer of the sacrifice – Samitri

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states that 'at a comparatively early period the formulae were accompanied by explanations, called

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6: To those who delight in marring huan exertion, etc., hunchbacks, dwarfs, and the like, ditto,...

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Let the king take care of all the animals well, moving amidst them. When the king who has done the

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travelling through them energised... The Vedic Nakshatras arose from a spiritual perception of the

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8: Anecdote from the Katha Upanishad on the advantage of knowing and collecting the Nachiketa fire

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adds that the 'Taittiriya-Brahmana of the Krishna Yajurveda is nothing but a continuation of the

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1: Divahs'yeni and Apadya rites, (Ishtis) being parts of one form of the Chatur-hotra ceremonies

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11: The advantages of knowing and the disadvantages of not knowing the purport of the Savitragni

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11: Offering homa with parts of the body of the slaughtered horse, and those called Svishtakrit

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21: Peculiarities in regard to establishing of the fire in connexion with the horse sacrifice

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3: Invocatory and oblative Mantras for Sacrifices to the Moon (Chandramasa ishti), etc., etc.

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10: Different states of the sacrificial fire and the advantages of offering oblations thereon

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in three steps. Here Vamana is explicitly mentioned in the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa; the Sanskrit

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or sages. They can also project negative or anti-divine forces, just as certain planets like

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17: Explanation of certain mantras of the 7th Kanda of the Sanhita relating to the rice homa

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12: Oblative (Yajya) mantras for the offering of wood, clarified butter and the Svishtakrita

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12: Mantras to be repeated by the Yajamana in sanctifying twenty-one bundles of Kus'a grass

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11: Expiatory mantras for irregularities in connexion with the new and full moon sacrifices

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1: Purification of the Sacrificial Post to which the victim at a sacrifice is to be mounted

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12: Oblative mantras (Prayaja Yajya) corresponding to Exhortations of the eleventh Section

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belt had a particular importance as reflecting and projecting heavenly influences that the

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6: Exhortative (praisha) mantra to be addressed by the Hota to the slayer of the sacrifice

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2: Expitations in connexion with the oblatory articles of the Agnihotra or fire sacrifice

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3, see below). Kashyap lists them with corresponding deities, common names, and names in

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Kauśika Bhaṭṭa Bhāskara Miśra (preceding and referred to by Sayana and Devarāja Yajvā )

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9: Repeating the several epithets if the Horse over his ears, etc., and consecrating him

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10: Eleven exhortations (Praisha) in connexion with the Anuyajas or subsidiary oblations

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R.L. Kashyap further elaborates while differing from Sharva slightly, stating that each

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composed numerous commentaries on Vedic literature, including the Samhitas, Brahmanas,

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carries the Mandara mountain on the back of Garuda to the Ocean of Milk. The tortoise (

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to the fire-god, Agni. According to M. Rajendralala, as 'a manual of rituals the first

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13: Ishti ceremonies to be performed for a year before commencing the horse sacrifice

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cows. Ample milk should be given to the calves before the use of milk in the Yajna'.

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1: Details of Chitti, Chetta and other sacrifices to the number ten described in the

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3: Oblative Mantras, called Apri, to be recited by the Hota at the Prayaja sacrifice

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9: To those who preside over rapid motion, elephant-keepers, grooms, etc., ditto,...

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14: Aptoryama rite by which animals intended for sacrifice, if lost, may be regained

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Works by the late Horace Hayman Wilson (Vol. 8), The Vishnu Purana Books III and IV

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Prapāṭhaka 9: On the operations of the second and third days of the horse sacrifice

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Rajendralala states that the 'first subject treated of in the third kanda are the

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7: Milk in its different states and the divinities who like it most on those states

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Prapāṭhaka 10: Sa'vitra-Chayana or collection of fire for the adoration of the sun

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15: Special homa to Mritya in connection with the Avabhritha or supplementary homa

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There are known issues with the SAKSHI / Kashyap translation, including grammar,

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4: Mantras to be repeated when turning a fire round the oblation (Paryaynikarama)

2745:' (1.7.1.6.3). An indirect reference to the legend via a mention of Namuchi from 5690: 5616: 5538: 5260:

Details are provided in the section dealing with the first ashṭaka (see above).

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5: Water to be sprinkled on the Horse by the four principal officiating priests

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19: Invocatory and oblative mantras for the sacrifice alluded to in Section 18

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8: Preliminary to the Yajamana's eating of the Ida or remnant of the offering

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Prapāṭhaka 3: Paurnamasa Ishti or Ceremonies to be performed on the full moon

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Further to the duty of a king to take good care of animals (as elaborated in

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8: On the Merits of the Agni-hotra, (continued). – The creation of the

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is primarily associated with the Puranic legend of destroying the Asura-king

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1. "To a (divinity of the) Brahman (cast), a Brahmana should be sacrificed (

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6: Mantras regarding the Ishti rites not given in the two preceding sections

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8: Puronurakya and Praisha mantras for the offering of omentum and rice cake

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4: Duties enjoined on the first day of the Havirnivapa, Preparation of Paddy

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to the present day follow the timing of the Nakshatras... are of prime in

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Sacred Sacrifice: Ritual Paradigms in Vedic Religion and Early Christianity

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14: Homa with boiled rice, etc., in connection with the Asramedha sacrifice

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Prapāṭhaka 8: On the operations of the first day of the Asvamedha sacrifice

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9: On the mode of reflecting upon the Agni-hotra and the advantages thereof

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6: Hotri mantras in connexion with the 10th night of the Dasahotri ceremony

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The Rishi questioned the priest "What is the aim or goal in performing the

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The Myths of Narasimha and Vamana: Two Avatars in Cosmological Perspective

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8: Oblations (Homas) with reference to the conduct and colour of the horse

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Vamana is primarily associated with the Puranic legend of taking back the

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According to Shrava, the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa was also commented upon by:

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7: Odana Sava or the sacrifice for the attainment of profusion of aliment

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In primordial times, the entire universe was covered with moving waters.

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states that 'the term Taittiríya is more rationally accounted for in the

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2: Exhortative (praisha) mantras in connexion with the Prayaja Sacrifice

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Prapāṭhaka 5: Mantras for Subsidiary Sacrifices or Upahomas (Concluded).

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9: On the operations of the second and third days of the horse sacrifice

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22: Certain details regarding the recitation of the Vahispuramana hymns

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5: Mantras to be recited by the Yajamana in the Ishti rites – Continued

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12: Mantra for the offering of oblations to the Wives of the Gods, etc.

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7: Offering of the first two sticks of wood (called Aghara) to the fire

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that here 'is a brief mention of the human duty that the calves of the

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Prapāṭhaka 6: Kaukila Sautramani or the Sacrifice with Spiritous Liquor

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5: Subsidiary details regarding the articles required for the sacrifice

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have well known malefic effects. The term Nakshatra refers to a means (

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7: Invocation of Agni with reference to the droppings of the oblations

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8: Odana Sava (Continued). Mantras to be repeated when ascending a car

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Prapāṭhaka 7: Expiations for defects in the performance of ceremonies

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9: Oblative (Yajya) mantras for the offering of omentum and rice cake

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Prapāṭhaka 2: Dars'a Ya'ga or Sacrifices meet on the wane of the Moon

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3: Bramhana Sava or the sacrifice for the attainment of the glory of

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Sava or the sacrifice for the attainment of nourishment or prosperity

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9: Creation of the world in connexion with the origin of Hotrimantras

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Based on information provided by Kashyap and R. Mitra, the chapters (

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or sacred lore, in which the different acts of the ritual were given

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The Taittiriya Brahmana: with the commentary of Batta Bhaskara Misra

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and, thus gratified, they, gratified him with all objects of desire.

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13: Exhortative mantras to be recited in connexion with the Anuyajas

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The Devas said they want immortality. They said that Vaya (the bird

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states that the Kaukili (, Kaukila or Kaukila) 'Sautramani is not a

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and the Purãṇas, the boar which raises the earth, has become of the

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7: Ceremonies to be performed over the slaughtered horse, concluded

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8: Mantras for obviating accidents in regard to Sacrificial animals

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11: Mantra in honor of Sanja, son of Brihaspati, – Sanjuvaka mantra

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W. E. Hale and B. Smith cite issues 92–108 of the academic journal

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17: Exhortations (Praisha) for the Prayaja in animal sacrifices to

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to understand happening. How did it happen? He saw a lotus petal (

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Sanskrit Dictionary, the sage Tittiri (or Taittiri) was a pupil of

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1: The mantras for placing of bricks, and the mode of placing them

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6: The anointing of the face of the Yakamana with clarified butter

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8: On the merits of sacrificing animals at the As'vamedha ceremony

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13: Addresses to the fire named Ukha on the completion of the year

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Garuda the Mount of Vishnu, Kurma the Tortoise Avatar, and Krishna

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13: Addresses (Puroruks) in connexion with the Indrastut sacrifice

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12: Addresses (Puroruks) in connexion with the Agnishtut sacrifice

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3: Paurnamasa Ishti or Ceremonies to be performed on the full moon

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The Religion And Philosophy of the Veda And Upanishads (volume 1)

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5: Chapurhotra-Chayana, or the observance of the Chaturhotra fire

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Prapāṭhaka 11: Nachiketa-Chayana, or collection of Nachiketa Fire

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10: Advantages of knowing the different mantras of the Savitragni

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4: On yoking the horse to a car and ornamenting and anointing him

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20: On the places appropriate for the different sacrificial posts

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4: Mantras to be recited by the Yajamana in course of Ishti rites

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13: Call for Ida for the wife of the Institutor of the sacrifice

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Prapāṭhaka 1: Sacrifices to the Constellations – Nakshatra Ishti

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Garuda is also frequently mentioned in respect to Kurma and the

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4: Upahoma or subsidiary sacrifices in connection with the above

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3: On shedding the hair of the head in conexion with Hotri rites

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Sanskrit transliteration for this mention is (emphasis added): '

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2: Disposal of the instruments for cleaning sacrificial vessels

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7: On the sacrifices of animals meet for Surya (Sauryadipas'n).

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4: Subsidiary details regarding the performance of the ceremony

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Vedic Voices: Intimate Narratives of a Living Andhra Tradition

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school can be no guide to the followers of the Taittiriyaka'.

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18: The Brahmodana Ishti in connexion with the horse sacrifice

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1: Preparations for the Asvamedha – the duties of the Yajamana

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1: Expitations in connexion with the Dars'apaurnamasa ceremony

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6: Go Sava or the sacrifice for the attainment of independence

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2: On the Application of the Hotri-mantras to periodical rites

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History Of Vedic Literature Brahmana And Aranyaka Works S Shr

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This assertion would however seems to be contradicted by the

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6: Kaukila Sautramani or the Sacrifice with Spirituous Liquor

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17: Expiations for diseases and other accidents to the horse

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23: How the other animals are to be arranged about the horse

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6: Placing of the Butter with fuel and Kus'a grass before it

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4: Sacrifices to the Light Constellations. – Deva Nakshatras

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7: Eleven exhortations (Prayaja Praisha) to be addressed by

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6: Number of Rittikas to be employed on different sacrifices

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5: Mantras for Subsidiary Sacrifices or Upahomas (Concluded)

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However, R. Mitra is less convinced, stating that neither '

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5: Sacrifices to the Dark Constellations. – Yama Nakshatras

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Prapāṭhaka 4: Mantras for Subsidiary Sacrifices or Upahomas

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are connected with dice but do not seem to the same thing.

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could be argued that the signs arose from the Nakshatras'.

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The Taittiriya Brahmana of the Black Yajur Veda (volume 3)

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Sava or the sacrifice for attaining the rank of Vrihaspati

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8: Eleven addresses (Puro-ruk) in connexion with the above

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7: Expiations for defects in the performance of ceremonies

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2: Dars'a Ya'ga or Sacrifices meet on the wane of the Moon

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The Religion And Philosophy of the Veda And Upanishads 02

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6: Visvasrij-Chayana, or Collection of the Visvasrij fire

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7: The Adhvaryu to sprinkle water from all the four sides

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20: Exhortations (Praisha) in connexion with the Anuyajas

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V.6) but are not a part of any scheme of cosmic cycles'.

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has been cited instead, as above. Notably, Prahlada, the

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in the Phalguni Star. For the Phalguni star the deity is

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Recorded around 300–400 BCE, it is prevalent in southern

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10: Eulogistic mantras, called Manola, addressed to Agni

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3: Homas or fire-sacrifices in connexion with the spirit

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son of Hiranyakashipu in Puranic literature such as the

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character in the SB (14, 1, 2) where under the name of

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