[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) › [Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths")](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha) › 4.1.4.1 # Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 4.1.4.1 Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 4.1.4.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.1.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.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. > — Julius Eggeling 1882, The Satapatha-Brahmana according to the Text of the Mâdhyandina School (SBE 12, 26, 41, 43, 44) - [Previous: 4.1.3.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.4.1.3.19) - [Next: 4.1.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.4.1.4.2) - [Up: 4.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.4.1.4) ## 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.4.1.4.1) — Julius Eggeling 1882, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇabhāṣya (Sāyaṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha*madhyandina!sayana) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (6) - [Altindische Grammatik](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.wackernagel-1896.v3.c9.3323) — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German - [The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c39.s5.17) — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English - [The Religions of India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.hopkins-1895.c15.62) — Edward Washburn Hopkins, English - [Public Administration in Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.banerjea-1916.c5.26) — 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.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ghoshal-1923.c7.81) — U. N. Ghoshal, English - [Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.coomaraswamy-1942.c2.s1.24) — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.4.1.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.4.1.4.1) · Pramāṇa