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Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 5.2.4.10

Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 5.2.4.10

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Sanskrit

5.2.4.10

sa haitenāpi bhiṣajyet | ayaṃ vai prāṇo yo 'yam pavate yo vai prāṇaḥ sa āyuḥ so 'yameka ivaiva pavate so 'yam puruṣe 'ntaḥ praviṣṭo daśadhā vihito daśa vā etā āhutīrjuhoti tadasmindaśa prāṇānkṛtsnameva sarvamāyurdadhāti sa yadihāpi gatāsuriva bavatyā haivainena harati

He may also heal (some disease) with this (offering): For yonder blower (or purifier, the wind) is this breath; and the breath is the same as the vital energy. Now he (the wind) blows as one only, but on entering into man, he is divided tenfold; and ten are those oblations he offers: thus he (the priest) endows him with the ten vital airs, with the whole, entire vital energy; and were he now even as one whose vital spirit has departed, verily by this (offering) he (the priest) brings him round again.

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

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