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AITAREYA-ARANYAKA.
These form the Trivrit Stoma and the Gâyatri metre, and whatever there exists, all this is produced after the production of this Stoma and this metre. Therefore the recitation of these headhymns serves for production.
5. He who knows this, gets offspring and cattle.
6. Next comes the Sadadohas verse. Verily, Sadadohas is breath, and thereby he joins all joints with breath.
7. Next follow the vertebrae 1 (of the bird). These verses are Virág (shining). Therefore man says to man, “Thou shinest above us;' or to a stiff and proud man, 'Thou carriest thy neck stiff.' Or because the (vertebrae of the neck) run close together, they are taken to be the best food. For Virág is food, and food is strength.
8. Next comes the Sadadohas verse. Sadadohas is breath, and thereby he joins all joints with breath.
1 Vigavas may be a singular, and the commentator seems to take it as such in his first explanation. The text, tâ virago bhavanti, proves nothing, because it could not be sa virago bhavanti, nor even sa virad bhavati. Possibly the word may occur in both forms, vigu, plural vigavah, and vigavah. In a somewhat similar way we find grîvâ and grivâh, folia and la feuille. On p. 109, the commentator speaks of vigavabhaga, and again, p. 110, pakshamQlarûpa vigava abhihitah. He, however, explains its meaning rightly, as the root of the wings, or rather the lower bones of the neck. Grîvâh, plural, were originally the vertebrae of the neck. The paragraph, though very empty, contains at least some interesting forms of language. First vigu, vertebrae, then the participles duta and sambâlhatama, and lastly the verb pratyak, the last probably used in the sense of to bring near, to represent, with the superlative adverb annatamâm (Pân. V, 4, 11), i. e. they are represented as if they brought the best food.
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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 |