The Shatapatha Brahmana ( , "
Brahmana of one-hundred paths", abbreviated ) is one of the prose texts describing the
Vedic ritual, associated with the
Shukla Yajurveda. It survives in two recensions, Madhyandina (ŚBM, of the ) and Kanva (ŚBK, of the ), with the former having the eponymous 100 brahmanas in 14 books, and the latter 104 brahmanas in 17 books. Linguistically, it belongs to the Brahmana period of
Vedic Sanskrit, dated to the first half of the
1st millennium BCE (
Iron Age India).
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