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AITAREYA-ARANYAKA.
shipped the uktha)—the Prâna (breath) connected with Indra.
6. He (who takes the recited verses as Anushtubhs) is able to become celebrated and of good report.
7. No! he says; rather is such a man liable to die before his time. For that self (consisting of Anushtubhs) is incomplete. For if a man confines himself to speech, not to breath, then driven by his. mind, he does not succeed with speech?.
8. Let him work towards the Brihatt, for the Brihati (breath) is the complete self.
9. That self (gtvatman) is surrounded on all sides by members. And as that self is on all sides surrounded by members, the Brihatt also is on all sides surrounded by metres ?.
10. For the self (in the heart) is the middle of these members, and the Brihati is the middle of the metres.
II. 'He is able to become celebrated and of good
· This passage is obscure, and probably corrupt. I have followed the commentator as much as possible. He says: If the Hotri priest proceeds with reciting the sastra, looking to the Anushtubh, which is speech, and not to the thousand of Brihatis which are breath, then, neglecting the Brihatî (breath), and driven by his mind to the Anushtubh (speech), he does not by his speech obtain that sastra. For in speech without breath the Hotri cannot, through the mere wish of the mind, say the sastra, the activity of all the senses being dependent on breath' The commentator therefore takes vagabhi for vâkam abhi, or for some old locative case formed by abhi. He also would seem to have read prâne na. One might attempt another construction, though it is very doubtful. One might translate, 'For that self, which is speech, is incomplete, because he understands if driven to the mind by breath, not (if driven) by speech.'
. Either in the sastra, or in the list of metres, there being some that have more, others that have less syllables.
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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 |