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AITAREYA-ARANYAKA.
In nadam va odatinâm (Rv. VIII, 69, 2), odati 1 are the waters in heaven, for they water all this; and they are the waters in the mouth, for they water all good food.
3. In nadam yoyuvatinâm (Rv. VIII, 69, 2), yoyuvati are the waters in the sky, for they seem to inundate; and they are the waters of perspiration, for they seem to run continually.
4. In patim vo aghnyânâm (Rv. VIII, 69, 2), aghnyâ are the waters which spring from the smoke of fire, and they are the waters which spring from the organ.
5. In dhenânâm ishudhyasi (Rv. VIII, 69, 2), the dhenu (cows) are the waters, for they delight all this; and ishudhyasi means, thou art food.
6. He extends a Trishtubh and an Anushtubh 2. Trishtubh is the man, Anushtubh the wife, and they make a couple. Therefore does a man, after having found a wife, consider himself a more perfect man.
7. These verses, by repeating the first three times, become twenty-five. The trunk is the twenty-fifth, and Pragâpati is the twenty-fifths. There are ten fingers on his hands, ten toes on his feet, two legs, two arms, and the trunk the twenty-fifth. He adorns that trunk as the twenty-fifth. Now this day consists of twenty-five, and the Stoma hymn of that day consists of twenty-five: it becomes the same
The nasal pluta on iti is explained as pâdapratîkagrahane 'tyantamâdararthah. Cf. Ait. Ar. II, 1, 4, 3.
. Tad id asa is a Trishtubh, nadam vah an Anush/ubh. * CE. I, I, 2, 7; I, I, 4, 2I.
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| SR No. | 007670 |
| Book Title | Upnishad |
| 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 |