[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Vedic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda) › [Brāhmaṇas (ritual exegesis)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana) › [Shatapatha Brahmana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha) › 3.2.2.22 # Shatapatha Brahmana 3.2.2.22 Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 3.2.2.22 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.2.2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.3.2.2.22) athāgnaye paridāya svapiti | devānvā eṣa upāvartate yo dīkṣate sa devatānāmeko bhavati na vai devāḥ svapantyanavaruddho vā etasyāsvapno bhavatyagnirvai devānāṃ vratapatistasmā evaitatparidāya svapityagne tvaṃ su jāgṛhi vayaṃ su mandiṣīmahītyagne tvaṃ jāgṛhi vayaṃ svapsyāma ityevaitadāha rakṣā ṇo aprayucanniti gopāya no 'pramatta ityevaitadāha prabudhe naḥ punaskṛdhīti yathetaḥ suptvā svasti prabudhyāmahā evaṃ naḥ kurvityevaitadāha > He then gives himself up to Agni (the fire) for protection and lies down to sleep. For he who is consecrated draws nigh to the gods and becomes one of the deities; but the gods do not sleep, while to him sleeplessness is not vouchsafed; and Agni being Lord of vows to the gods, it is to him that he now commits himself and lies down to sleep, with the text (Vâg. S. IV, 14), 'O Agni, be thou a good waker: may we thoroughly refresh ourselves!' whereby he says, 'O Agni, wake thou: we are going to sleep!'--'Guard us unremittingly!' whereby he means to say, 'protect us heedfully!'--'Make us awake again!' whereby he means to say, 'Order so that, having rested here, we may awake safely.' > — Julius Eggeling 1882, The Satapatha-Brahmana according to the Text of the Mâdhyandina School (SBE 12, 26, 41, 43, 44) - [Previous: 3.2.2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.3.2.2.21) - [Next: 3.2.2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.3.2.2.23) - [Up: 3.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.3.2.2) ## Translations (1) - [The Satapatha-Brahmana according to the Text of the Mâdhyandina School (SBE 12, 26, 41, 43, 44)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha*madhyandina~en-eggeling.3.2.2.22) — Julius Eggeling 1882, English ## Commentaries (2) - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇabhāṣya (Harisvāmin)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha*madhyandina!harisvamin) — Harisvāmin, Sanskrit - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇabhāṣya (Sāyaṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha*madhyandina!sayana) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit ## Discussed in (2) - [A Vedic Concordance](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c6.6393) — Bloomfield 1906, English - [A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ghoshal-1923.c7.26) — Ghoshal 1923, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.3.2.2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.3.2.2.22) · Pramāṇa