Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 10.3.3.8
Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 10.3.3.8
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- Sanskrit
10.3.3.8
yadā vā agniranugacati vāyuṃ tarhyanūdvāti tasmādenamudavāsīdityāhurvāyuṃ hyanūdvāti yadādityo'stameti vāyuṃ tarhi praviśati vāyuṃ candramā vāyau diśaḥ pratiṣṭhitā vāyorevādhi punarjāyante sa yadaivaṃvidasmāllokātpraiti vācaivāgnimapyeti cakṣuṣādityam manasā candraṃ śrotreṇa diśaḥ prāṇena vāyuṃ sa etanmaya eva bhūtvaitāsāṃ devatānāṃ yāṃ-yāṃ kāmayate sā bhūtvelayati
Now, when that fire goes out, it is wafted up in the wind (air), whence people say of it, 'It has expired,' for it is wafted up in the wind. And when the sun sets it enters the wind, and so does the moon; and the quarters are established in the wind, and from out of the wind they issue again. And when he who knows this passes away from this world, he passes into the fire by his speech, into the sun by his eye, into the moon by his mind, into the quarters by his ear, and into the wind by his breath; and being composed thereof, he becomes whichever of these deities he chooses, and is at rest.
Translations (1)
- The Satapatha-Brahmana according to the Text of the Mâdhyandina School (SBE 12, 26, 41, 43, 44) — Julius Eggeling 1882, English
Commentaries (1)
- Śatapathabrāhmaṇabhāṣya (Sāyaṇa) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit
Linked texts (3)
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — John Muir, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Paul Deussen & A. S. Geden, English