Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 5.4.3.4
Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 5.4.3.4
- Language
- Sanskrit
5.4.3.4
sa upāvaharati | indrasya vajro 'sīti vajro vai ratha indro vai yajamāno dvayena vā eṣa indro bhavati yacca kṣatriyo yadu ca yajamānastasmādāhendrasya vajro 'sīti
He takes it down with (Vâg. S. X, 21), 'Thou art Indra's thunderbolt!' The chariot is indeed a thunderbolt; and the Sacrificer is Indra;--he is Indra for a twofold reason, namely because he is a Kshatriya, and because he is a Sacrificer: therefore he says, 'Indra's thunderbolt thou art.'
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 (6)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- 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