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Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 7.1.1.6

Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 7.1.1.6

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7.1.1.6

athoṣānnivapati | ayaṃ vai loko gārhapatyaḥ paśava ūṣā asmiṃstalloke paśūndadhāti tasmādime 'smiṃloke paśavaḥ

He then scatters saline soil (over the hearth-site); for the Gârhapatya is this world, and salt means cattle: he thus bestows cattle on this world,--hence those cattle here in this world.

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

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