Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 6.2.2.9
Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 6.2.2.9
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- Sanskrit
6.2.2.9
yadveva saptadaśa | saptadaśo vai puruṣo daśa prāṇāścatvāryaṅgānyātmā pañcadaśo grīvāḥ ṣoḍaśyaḥ śiraḥ saptadaśam puruṣaḥ prajāpatiḥ prajāpatiragniryāvānagniryāvatyasya mātrā tāvataivainametatsaminddhe
And, again, why there are seventeen,--man is seventeenfold,--there are ten vital airs, four limbs, the body the fifteenth, the neck-joints the sixteenth, and the head the seventeenth,--Pragâpati is the Person (or man, purusha), and Pragâpati is Agni: as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, by so much he thus kindles him.
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 (3)
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — John Muir, English
- Citikāṇḍa — Sanskrit
- Kāṇvīya Śatapathabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit