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# Shatapatha Brahmana 6.3.2.2

Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 6.3.2.2

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.6.3.2.2)

so 'śvamabhimantrayate | praturtaṃ vājinnādraveti yadvai kṣipraṃ tattūrtamatha yatkṣiprātkṣepīyastatpratūrta variṣṭhāmanu saṃvatamitīyaṃ vai variṣṭhā saṃvadimāmanu saṃvatamityetaddivi te janma paramamantarikṣe tava nābhiḥ pṛthivyāmadhi yoniriditi tadenametā devatāḥ karotyagniṃ vāyumādityaṃ tadaśve vīryaṃ dadhāti

> He addresses the horse, with (Vâg. S. XI, 12), 'Most speedily, O courser, run hither,'--what is swift, that is speedy, and what is swifter than swift, that is most speedy;--'along the widest range,'--the widest range doubtless is this (earth): thus, 'along this wide range;'--'in the sky is thy highest home, in the air thy navel, upon earth thy womb:' he thus makes it to be those deities, Agni, Vâyu, and Âditya (the sun), and thus lays vigour into the horse.  
> — 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.6.3.2.2) — 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

## Discussed in (1)

- [A Vedic Concordance](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c6.3749) — Bloomfield 1906, English

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