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the heart. Death, having become down-breathing, entered the navel. The waters, having become seed, entered the generative organ. (4)
5. Then Hunger and Thirst spoke to him (the Self): ‘Allow us two (a place). He said to them: 'I assign you to those very deities there, I make you co-partners with them. Therefore to whatever deity an oblation is offered, hunger and thirst are co-partners in it. (5)
THIRD KHANDA. 1. He thought: There are these worlds and the guardians of the worlds. Let me send forth food for them.' (1)
He brooded over the water. From the water thus brooded on, matter S (můrti) was born. And that matter which was born, that verily was food %. (2)
2. When this food (the object matter) had thus been sent forth, it wished to flee 4, crying and turning away. He (the subject) tried to grasp it by speech. He could not grasp it by speech. If he had grasped it by speech, man would be satisfied by naming food. (3)
He tried to grasp it by scent (breath). He could not grasp it by scent. If he had grasped it by scent, man would be satisfied by smelling food. (4)
He tried to grasp it by the eye. He could not
1 The water, as mentioned before, or the five elements.
Mürti, for mürtti, form, Colebrooke; a being of organised form, Roer; vrîhiyavâdirûpå mashakadirûpå ka martih, i.e. vegetable food for men, animal food for cats, &c.
• Offered food, i. e. objects for the Devatâs and the senses in the body.
• Atyagighamsat, atisayena hantum gantum aikkhat. Sâyana.
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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 |