Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 3.9.4.17
Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 3.9.4.17
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- Sanskrit
3.9.4.17
atha prahariṣyan | yaṃ dviṣyāttam manasā dhyāyedamuṣmā aham praharāmi na tubhyamiti yo nvevemam mānuṣam brāhmaṇaṃ hanti taṃ nveva paricakṣate 'tha kiṃ ya etaṃ devī hi somo ghnanti vā enametadyadabhiṣuṇvanti tametena ghnanti tathāta udeti tathā saṃjīvati tathānenasyam bhavati yadyu na dviṣyādapi tṛṇameva manasā dhyāyettatho anenasyam bhavati
Being about to beat (the Soma with the pressing-stone), let him think in his mind of him he hates: 'Herewith I strike N.N., not thee!' Now whosoever kills a human Brâhman here, he, forsooth, is deemed guilty,--how much more so he who strikes him (Soma), for Soma is a god. But they do kill him when they press him;--they kill him with that (stone): thus he rises from thence, thus he lives; and thus no guilt is incurred.. But if he hate no one, he may even think of a straw, and thus no guilt is incurred.
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 (6)
- Kātyāyanaśrautasūtra — Kātyāyana (Vājasaneyi sūtrakāra), Sanskrit
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- Die Religion des Veda — Hermann Oldenberg, German
- Śuklasūtra — Kātyāyana, Sanskrit
- Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, English