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Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 5.5.5.6

Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 5.5.5.6

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5.5.5.6

tasya yo yonirāśaya āsa | tamanuparāmṛśya saṃlupyācinatsaiṣeṣṭirabhavattadyadetasminnāśaye tridhāturivaiṣā vidyāśeta tasmāttraidhātavī nāma

And that which had been his (Vritra's) seat, his retreat, that he shattered, grasping it and tearing it out: it became this offering. And because the science (the Veda) that lay in that retreat was, as it were, a threefold (tridhâtu) one, therefore this is called the Traidhâtavî (ishti).

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

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