Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 5.4.4.15
Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 5.4.4.15
- Language
- Sanskrit
5.4.4.15
athāsmai brāhmaṇa sphyam prayacati | adhvaryurvā yo vāsya purohito bhavatīndrasya vajro 'si tena me radhyeti vajro vai sphyaḥ sa etena vajreṇa brāhmaṇo rājānamātmano 'balīyāṃsaṃ kurute yo vai rājā brāhmaṇādabalīyānamitrebhyo vai sa balīyānbhavati tadamitrebhya evainametadbalīyāṃsaṃ karoti
A Brâhmana then hands to him the sacrificial (wooden) sword,--either the Adhvaryu, or he who is his (the king's) domestic chaplain--with, 'Indra's thunderbolt thou art: therewith serve me!'--the sacrificial sword being a thunderbolt, that Brâhmana, by means of that thunderbolt, makes the king to be weaker than himself; for indeed the king who is weaker than a Brâhmana, is stronger than his enemies: thus he thereby makes him stronger than his enemies.
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
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- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Die Religion des Veda — Hermann Oldenberg, German
- Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times — K. P. Jayaswal, English
- Hindu Administrative Institutions — V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar, English
- 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
- Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, English