The Satapatha Brahmana

The Satapatha Brahmana, Julius Eggeling's translation published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, beginning in 1882 as part of the Sacred Books of the East series, is the standard nineteenth century scholarly English translation of this major Vedic prose text on ritual. Eggeling was a recognized Sanskritist and the translation's authority rests on that philological training within a landmark academic series edited by Max Muller. Its limit is its age: later Vedic ritual scholarship has refined specific interpretations, and Eggeling's Victorian prose can obscure technical ritual detail. Cite it as a standard accessible translation of the text; a disputed interpretive point needs a modern specialist study.