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# Shatapatha Brahmana 6.2.2.2

Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 6.2.2.2

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.2.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.6.2.2.2)

śyāmo bhavati | dvayāni vai śyāmasya lomāni śuklāni ca kṛṣṇāni ca dvandvam mithunam prajananaṃ tadasya prājāpatyaṃ rūpaṃ tūfaro bhavati tūparo hi prajāpatiḥ

> It is a dark grey one; for the grey has two kinds of hair, the white and the black; and two make a productive pair: that is its Pragâpati-characteristic. It is a hornless one, for Pragâpati is hornless.  
> — Julius Eggeling 1882, The Satapatha-Brahmana according to the Text of the Mâdhyandina School (SBE 12, 26, 41, 43, 44)

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## Translations (1)

- [The Satapatha-Brahmana according to the Text of the Mâdhyandina School (SBE 12, 26, 41, 43, 44)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha*madhyandina~en-eggeling.6.2.2.2) — Julius Eggeling 1882, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Śatapathabrāhmaṇabhāṣya (Harisvāmin)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha*madhyandina!harisvamin) — Harisvāmin, Sanskrit
- [Śatapathabrāhmaṇabhāṣya (Sāyaṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha*madhyandina!sayana) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit

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