Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 9.4.3.16
Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 9.4.3.16
- Language
- Sanskrit
9.4.3.16
athaina pūrvābhiṣekeṇābhimṛśati | savitā tvā savānāṃ suvatāmeṣa vo 'mī rājā somo 'smākam brāhmaṇānāṃ rājeti brāhmaṇānevāpoddharatyanādyānkaroti
He then touches it (the fire-altar) with (the formula of) the preliminary consecration (Vâg. S. IX, 39. 40), 'May Savitri quicken thee for (powers of) quickening!... This (man), O ye (people), is your king; Soma is the king of us Brâhmanas!'--he thereby excludes the Brâhmanas (from the power of the king) and makes them such as are not to be fed upon (by the king).
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 (5)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — John Muir, English
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- History of Indian Medicine, containing Notices, Biographical and Bibliographical, of the Āyurvedic Physicians and their Works on Medicine — Girindranath Mukhopadhyaya, English
- Citikāṇḍa — Sanskrit