Upnishad

SR No.: 007670
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1879
Total Pages: 1835
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 35 MB

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AITAREYA-ARANYAKA.
means all these beings, all minds, all thoughts also turn to thee.
10. When these two become three protectors;'— i. e. when these two united beget offspring.
11. He who knows this, gets offspring and cattle.
12. “Join what is sweeter than sweet (offspring) with the sweet (the parents);'--for the couple (father and mother) is sweet, the offspring is sweet, and he thus joins the offspring with the couple.
13. And this (the son, when married) being very sweet, conquered through the sweet;'-i.e. the couple is sweet, the offspring is sweet, and thus through the couple he conquers offspring ?
14. This is declared by a Rishi : Because he (Pragâpati) raised his body (the hymn tad id âsa or the Veda in general) in the body (of the sacrificer)' (therefore that Nishkevalya hymn is praised); -i. e. this body, consisting of the Veda, in that corporeal form (of the sacrificer).
15. “Then let this body indeed be the medicine of that body;'—i. e. this body, consisting of the Veda, of that corporeal form of the sacrificer).
16. Of this (the first foot of Rv. X, 120, 1) the eight syllables are Gâyatri, the eleven syllables are Trishtubh, the twelve syllables are Gagati, the ten syllables are Virâg. The Virág, consisting of ten syllables, rests in these three metres 8.
17. The word purusha, consisting of three syllables, that indeed goes into the Virág4.
All these are purely fanciful interpretations. . Not to be found in our Sâkhâ of the Rig-veda.
* These metres are obtained by a purely arbitrary counting of syllables in the hymn tadidasa, which really consists of Trishubh verses.
• If we simply count syllables, the first and second feet of the
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