Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 5.2.5.3
Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 5.2.5.3
- Language
- Sanskrit
5.2.5.3
atha yadaindrāvaiṣṇavaḥ | carurbhavatīndro vai yajamāno vaiṣṇavāḥ puruṣāstadasmā agnirdātā puruṣāndadāti tairevaitatsaṃspṛśate tānātmankurute
And as to why there is a pap for Indra and Vishnu;--Indra is the Sacrificer, and men are Vishnu's: thus Agni, the giver, gives him (the Sacrificer) men; he now puts himself in contact with them, makes them his own.
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 (4)
- The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times — Beni Prasad, English
- Kāṇvīya Śatapathabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit
- 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
- Śatapatha — Sanskrit