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Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 5.2.2.3

Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 5.2.2.3

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Sanskrit

5.2.2.3

taddhaike | saptadaśānnāni sambharanti saptadaśaḥ prajāpatiriti vadantastadu tathā na kuryātprajāpaternveva sarvamannamanavaruddhaṃ ka u tasmai manuṣyo yaḥ sarvamannamavarundhīta tasmādu sarvamevānnaṃ yathopasmāraṃ sambharannekamannaṃ na sambharet

Now some bring seventeen kinds of food, saying, 'Seventeenfold is Pragâpati.' But let him not do so: surely all the food is not appropriated to Pragâpati, and, compared to him, what is man that he should appropriate to himself all food? Hence, while bringing every kind of food that occurs to him, let him not bring of some one (particular) kind of food.

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

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