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Shatapatha Brahmana 8.5.4.12

Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 8.5.4.12

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Sanskrit

8.5.4.12

tā u vai tisra eva | ayameva lokaḥ prathamā citirdyauruttamātha yā etāstisrastadantarikṣaṃ tadvā idamekamivaivāntarikṣaṃ tā evaṃ tisra evam pañcaivaṃ ṣaḍevaṃ sapta

And, indeed, there are only three of them,--the first layer is this very (terrestrial) world; and the uppermost (layer) is the sky; and those three (intermediate layers) are the air, for there is, as it were, only one air here: thus (there are) three, or five, or six, or seven of them.

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

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