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Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 1.4.1.13

Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 1.4.1.13

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1.4.1.13

sa ha naiva pratiśuśrāva | taṃ tvā ghṛtasnavīmaha ityevābhivyāharadathāsya ghṛtakīrtāvevāgnirvaiśvānaro mukhādujjajvāla tam na śaśāka dhārayituṃ so 'sya mukhānniṣpede saimām pṛthivīm prāpādaḥ

Still he did not answer. (The priest continued), 'Thee, O butter-sprinkled one, we invoke! (Rig-veda V, 26, 2);' so much he uttered, when at the very mentioning of butter, Agni Vaisvânara flashed forth from the (king's) mouth: he was unable to hold him back; he issued from his mouth, and fell down on this earth.

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

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