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Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 10.2.3.4

Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 10.2.3.4

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10.2.3.4

sa vedyantāt ṣaṭtriṃśatprakramām prācīṃ vediṃ vimimīte triṃśatam paścāttiraścīṃ caturviṃśatim purastāttannavatiḥ saiṣā navatiprakramā vedistasyāṃ saptavidhamagniṃ vidadhāti

From the (western) end of the Vedi he measures off the Vedi thirty-six steps long eastward, thirty (steps) broad behind, and twenty-four (steps broad) in front,--that makes ninety. This, then, is the Vedi measuring ninety steps: thereon he lays out the sevenfold Fire-altar.

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

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