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Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 11.4.1.6

Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 11.4.1.6

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Sanskrit

11.4.1.6

sa vai gautamasya putra vṛto janaṃ dhāvayet yastaddarśapūrṇamāsayorvidyādyasmādimāḥ prajā lomaśā jāyante yasmādāsām punariva śmaśrūṇyaupapakṣyāṇi durbīriṇāni jāyante yasmācīrṣaṇyevāgre palito bhavatyatha punaruttame vayasi sarva eva palito bhavati

'He alone, O son of Gautama, may drive about amongst people as chosen (priest), who knows from the Full and New-moon sacrifices, whereby creatures here are born with hair; whereby, for the second time, as it were, the hair of the beard and the arm-pits and other parts of the body grow on them; whereby it is on the head that one first becomes grey, and then, again, in the last stage of life, one becomes grey all over.

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

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