11 Facts About Shatapatha Brahmana

1.

Shatapatha Brahmana is a commentary on the Sukla Yajurveda.

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Shatapatha Brahmana is considered to be significant in the development of Vaishnavism as the origin of several Puranic legends and avatars of the RigVedic god Vishnu.

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3.

Arthur Berriedale Keith states that linguistically, the Shatapatha Brahmana belongs to the later part of the Brahmana period of Vedic Sanskrit.

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4.

Shatapatha Brahmana thence went burning along this earth towards the east; and Gotama Rahugana and the Videgha Mathava followed after him as he was burning along.

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5.

The remaining 5 books of the Shatapatha Brahmana cover supplementary and ritualistically newer material; the content of the 14th and last book constitutes the Brhad-Aranyaka Upanisad.

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6.

Knipe all agree with Kak, repeating that the number, layering, size, and configuration of bricks to construct sacrificial altars - real and symbolic - as detailed in texts such as the Shatapatha Brahmana had numerous rules, with Staal adding - in relation to similarities with ancient Greek, Babylonian, and Chinese geometry:.

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7.

Shatapatha Brahmana made himself fifteen bodies of forty-eight bricks each: he did not succeed.

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8.

Shatapatha Brahmana did not develop either twenty-one-fold, or twenty-two-fold, or twenty-three-fold.

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9.

Shatapatha Brahmana saw the fifteen parts of the day, the muhurtas, as forms for his body, as space-fillers, as well as fifteen of the night.

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10.

Shatapatha Brahmana created the waters out of Vak the world; for speech belonged to it: that was created.

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11.

Shatapatha Brahmana saw that unyoking-place, the Vatsapra, and unyoked thereat to prevent chafing; for when the yoked is not unloosed, it is chafed.

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