शतपथब्राह्मण [ śatapathabrāhmaṇa ] [ śatá-patha--brāhmaṇa ] n. " the Brāhmaṇa with a hundred paths or sections " N. of a well-known Brāhmaṇa attached to the Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā 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 Śākhās or schools , Mādhyaṃdina 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 Prapāṭhakas ) ; 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 ] ) Lit. IW. 25