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# Gopathabrahmana 1.2.23

Gopathabrāhmaṇa 1.2.23

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.gopatha.1.2.23)

sāṃtapanā idaṃ havir iti\_  
eṣa ha vai sāṃtapano 'gnir yad brāhmaṇo yasya garbhādhānapuṃsavanasīmantonnayanajātakarmanāmakaraṇaniṣkramaṇānnaprāśanagodānacūḍākaraṇopanayanāplavanāgnihotravratacaryādīni kṛtāni bhavanti sa sāṃtapanaḥ\_  
atha yo 'yamanagnikaḥ sa kumbhe loṣṭas  
tad yathā kumbhe loṣṭaḥ prakṣipto naiva śaucārthāya kalpate naiva śasyaṃ nirvartayaty evam evāyaṃ brāhmaṇo 'nagnikas tasya brāhmaṇasyānagnikasya naiva daivaṃ dadyān na pitryaṃ na cāsya svādhyāyāśiṣo na yajñāśiṣaḥ svargaṃgamā bhavanti  
tad apy etad ṛcoktam \<agniṃ dūtaṃ vṛṇīmahe hotāraṃ viśvavedasam | asya yajñasya sukratum \[ŚS 20.101.1, ṚV 1.12.1\]\> iti brāhmaṇam || 23 ||

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## Other recensions (1)

- [Gopathabrāhmaṇa 1.1.1–1.3.6 (ed. Mitra and Vidyābhūṣaṇa 1872)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.gopatha*mitra.1.2.23) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Atharvavedabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.other.atharvavedabrahmana.5.23) — Brahmā, Sanskrit

## Discussed in (1)

- [A Vedic Concordance](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c6.7554) — Bloomfield 1906, English

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