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Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 2.5.2.25

Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 2.5.2.25

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Sanskrit

2.5.2.25

sa vai dakṣiṇe 'gnau juhoti | yadgrāme yadaraṇya iti grāme vā hyaraṇye vainaḥ kriyate yatsabhāyāṃ yadindriya iti yatsabhāyāmiti yanmānuṣa iti tadāha yadindriya iti yaddevatreti tadāha yadenaścakṛmā vayamidaṃ tadavayajāmahe svāheti yatkiṃ ca vayamenaścakṛmedaṃ vayaṃ tasmātsarvasmātpramucyāmaha ityevaitadāha

He offers in the southern fire, with the text (III, 45), 'Whatever (sin we have committed) in the village and forest,'--for both in the village and in the forest sin is committed;--'whatever in society and in our own self,'--by 'whatever (we have committed) in society,' he means to say 'against man;' and by 'whatever in our own self' (indriya), he means to say 'against the gods;'--'whatever sin we have here committed, that we expiate by offering, Svâhâ!'--whereby he says 'whatsoever sin we have committed, from all that we rid ourselves.'

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

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