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Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 13.1.1.4

Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 13.1.1.4

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Sanskrit

13.1.1.4

prajāpatiryajñamasṛjata tasya mahimāpākrāmatsa mahartvijaḥ prāviśattam mahartvigbhiranvaicattam mahartvigbhiranvavindadyanmahartvijo brahmaudanam prāśnanti mahimānameva tadyajñasya yajamāno'varunddhe brahmaudane suvarṇaṃ hiraṇyaṃ dadāti reto vā odano reto hiraṇyaṃ retasaivāsmiṃstadreto dadhāti śatamānam bhavati śatāyurvai puruṣaḥ śatendriya āyurevendriyaṃ vīryamātmandhatte catuṣṭayīrapo vasatīvarīrmadhyamāyāhne gṛhṇāti tā digbhyaḥ samāhṛtā bhavanti dikṣu vā annamannamāpo'nnenaivāsmā annamavarunddhe

Pragâpati produced the sacrifice. His greatness departed from him, and entered the great sacrificial priests. Together with the great priests he went in search of it, and together with the great priests he found it: when the great priests eat the priests’ mess of rice, the Sacrificer thereby secures for himself the greatness of the sacrifice. Along with the priests’ mess of rice he presents gold (to the priests); for the mess of rice is seed, and gold is seed: by means of seed he thus lays seed into that (horse, and Sacrificer). It (the gold) weighs a hundred (grains); for man has a life of a hundred (years), and a hundred energies: it is life, and energy, vigour, he lays into his own self. At midday he takes Vasatîvarî water of four kinds; it is brought together from the (four) quarters, for food is in (all) the (four) quarters, and water is food: by means of food he thus secures food for him.

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

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