शतपथ — {patha} mfn. having a hundred (i.e. numerous) paths, very many-sided##proceeding in a hundred ways##m. = next##{-brāhmaṇa} n. the Brāhmaṇa with a hundred paths or sections', N. of a well-known Brāhmaṇa attached to the Vājasaneyi-samhitā or White Yajur-veda, (like the Saṃhitā, this Brāhmaṇa is ascribed to the Ṛishi Yājñavalkya##it is perhaps the most modern of the Brāhmaṇas, and is preserved in two Sākhās or schools, Mādhyampdina and Kāṇva##the version belonging to the former is best known, and is divided into fourteen Kāṇḍas or books which contain one hundred Adhyāyas or lectures {or according to another arrangement into sixty-eight Prapsṭhakas}##the whole work is regarded as the most systematic and interesting of all the Brāhmaṇas, and though intended mainly for ritual and sacrificial purposes, is full of curious mythological details and legends##cf. {yajur-veda}, {vijasaneyisaṃhitā}, {brāhmaṇa}) 25 &c##{-śruti} f. N. of wk
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