Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 4.1.4.1
Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 4.1.4.1
- Language
- Sanskrit
4.1.4.1
kratūdakṣau ha vā asya mitrāvaruṇau | etannvadhyātmaṃ sa yadeva manasā kāmayata idam me syādidaṃ kurvīyeti sa eva kraturatha yadasmai tatsamṛdhyate sa dakṣo mitra eva kraturvaruṇo dakṣo brahmaiva mitraḥ kṣatraṃ varuṇo 'bhigantaiva brahma kartā kṣatriyaḥ
Mitra and Varuna, forsooth, are his intelligence and will; and as such belonging to his self: whenever he desires anything in his mind, as 'Would that this were mine! I might do this!' that is intelligence; and whenever that is accomplished, that is will. Now intelligence indeed is Mitra, and will is Varuna; and Mitra is the priesthood, and Varuna the nobility; and the priesthood is the conceiver, and the noble is the doer.
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)
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- The Religions of India — Edward Washburn Hopkins, English
- Public Administration in Ancient India — Pramathanath Banerjea, English
- A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. — U. N. Ghoshal, English
- Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, English