Veda · Brahmana
Shatapatha Brahmana
The great Brahmana of the Shukla Yajurveda; extends the debts a person owes and frames the five great sacrifices (pancha-maha-yajna) behind the debt to all creatures.
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Appears in
- Runanubandha, the debts we are born into Treatise
The Shatapatha Brahmana , at 1.7.2.1, adds a fourth debt, to fellow humans, discharged by hospitality.
- The debt to the dead Treatise
The tradition treats the debt to the ancestors, *pitri-rina*, as primary among a person's obligations, discharged through progeny and through *shraddha*, the rite…