Shatapatha Brahmana
The Shatapatha Brāhmana ( Sanskrit , शतपथ ब्राह्मण śatapatha brāhmaṇa , the " Brāhmaṇa of the hundred paths") is one of the ancient Indian Brāhmana texts of the Veda , the holy scriptures of Hinduism . It is one of the prose texts describing the Vedic rituals associated with white Yajurveda (Shukla Yajurveda) .
Reviews
The Shatapatha-Brāhmana has come down to us in two reviews: Madhyandina des Vajasaneyi Madhyandina- Śākhā and Kanva des Kanva -Shakha, the former with the eponymous 100 Brāhmanas in 14 books, and the latter with 104 Brāhmanas in 17 books. Linguistically it belongs to the Brāhmana period of Vedic Sanskrit , which dates back to the first half of the 1st millennium BC. Is dated.
Of interest are the mythological sections embedded therein with myths of creation and the deluge of Manu . The text details the preparation of the altar, ceremonial objects, ritual recitations, and the Soma libation, along with the symbolic attributes of each aspect of the ritual.
It also includes the journey of the holy seer Bhrigu , a son of the god Varuṇa , into the hereafter .
The 14 books of the Madhyandina Review can be divided into two major main parts. The first nine books have precise textual commentaries, often line by line, of the first 18 books of the corresponding Saṃhitā of Yajurveda . The following 5 books deal with supplementary and ritually more recent material, and they also contain the famous Bṛhadāraṇyaka upaniṣad , which covers almost the entire last book 14.
The Shatapatha Brāhmana was translated into English by Julius Eggeling in the late 19th century. The five volumes are included in the Sacred Books of the East series .
Quote
“There are two kinds of gods: first, the gods, and then the brahmins, who have learned the Vedas and recite them; these are human gods. "
Editions and translations
- J. Eggeling: Satapatha Brahmana, in: Sacred Books of the East , Vol. 12, 26, 41, 43, 44 (reprint), Oxford 1882–1900. ( Online )
literature
- Moritz Winternitz : History of Indian Literature , Leipzig, 1905–1922, Bde. I - III.
- W. P Lehmann and H. Ratanajoti: "Typological syntactical Characteristics of the Śatapathabrāhmaṇa ", Journal of Indo-European Studies 3: 147-160.
- Paul Émile Dumont: L'Aśvamedha: Description du sacrifice solennel du cheval dans le culte védique d'après les textes du Yajurveda blanc Vājasaneyisaṃhitā, Śathapatha brāhmaṇa, Kātayāyanaśrautasūtra. Paris: Paul Geuthner , 1927 (Société belge d'études orientales)
- W. Ruben: Beginning of Philosophy in India (Texts of Indian Philosophy 1), 3rd edition Berlin 1961.
- Nargis Verma: The Etymologies In The Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, 1st edition, Delhi 1992, ISBN 81-7081-245-3
Web links
- GRETIL etext
- English Eggeling translation of the Satapatha Brahmana (SBE 12, 26, 41, 43 and 44)
- The classical Indian philosophy
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adolf E. Jensen: Myth, Man and Environment. Arno Press, 1950, ISBN 9780405105449 , p. 93 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ THE CLASSICAL INDIAN PHILOSOPHY. In: phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de. Accessed December 31, 2014 .