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THIRD ÅRANYA KA1.
FIRST ADHYÅYA.
• First KHANDA. 1. Next follows the Upanishad of the Samhita
2. The former half is the earth, the latter half the heaven, their union the air 8, thus says Mândukeya; their union is the ether, thus did Mäkshavya teach it.
3. That air is not considered * independent”, therefore I do not agree with his (Manduka's) son.
4. Verily, the two are the same, therefore air is
1 This last portion of the Upanishad is found in the MS. discovered by Dr. Bühler in Kashmir, and described by him in the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1877, p. 36. I have collated it, so far as it was possible to read it, many lines being either broken off altogether, or almost entirely obliterated.
. Samhita is the sacred text in which all letters are closely joined. The joining together of two letters is called their samhita; the first letter of a joined group the pūrvarūpa (n.), the second the uttararupa. For instance, in agnim ile the mis pūrvarūpa, the i uttararpa, and mi their samhita or union.
8 As in worshipping the Sâlagrâma stone, we really worship Vishnu, so we ought to perceive the earth, the heaven, and the air when we pronounce the first and the second letters of a group, and that group itself.
• Mene has here been taken as 3rd pers. sing. perf. passive. The commentator, however, explains it as an active verb, niskitavân.
* Because it is included in the ether, not the ether in the air. Comm.
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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 |