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Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 4.2.5.15

Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 4.2.5.15

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Sanskrit

4.2.5.15

atha savanīyaiḥ puroḍāśaiḥ pracarati | devo vai somo divi hi somo vṛtro vai soma āsīttasyaitacarīraṃ yadgirayo yadaśmānastadeṣośānā nāmauṣadhirjāyata iti ha smāha śvetaketurauddālakistāmetadāhṛtyābhiṣuṇvantīti

Thereupon he proceeds with (the offering of) the cakes of the Soma feast. Now Soma is a god, for Soma was in the heaven;--'Soma, forsooth, was Vritra; the mountains and stones are his body: thereon grows that plant called Usânâ,' said Svetaketu Auddâlaki; that they bring hither and press.'

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

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