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AITAREYA-ARANYAKA.
tenance, and the world of Svarga. He lives his full
age.
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THIRD KHANDA1.
1. Next come the reciters of the Nirbhuga 2. 2. Nirbhuga abides on earth, Pratrinna in heaven, the Ubhayamantarena in the sky.
3. Now, if any one should chide him who recites the Nirbhuga, let him answer: Thou art fallen from the two lower places. If any one should chide him who recites the Pratrinna, let him answer : 'Thou art fallen from the two higher places. But he who recites the Ubhayamantarena, there is no chiding him.
4. For when he turns out the Sandhi (the union of words), that is the form of Nirbhuga "; and when he pronounces two syllables pure (without modification), that is the form of Pratrinna". This comes
1 Cf. Rig-veda-prâtisâkhya, ed. Max Müller, p. iii, and Nachträge, p. ii.
2 Nirbhuga(n) is the recitation of the Veda without intervals, therefore the same as Samhita. Pratrinna is the recitation of each word by itself (pada-pâtha); Ubhayamantarena, the between the two, is the intertwining of Samhitâ and Pada-pâtha, the so-called Krama-pâtha. By reciting the Samhitâ inattentively, one may use forms which belong to the Pada-text; and by reciting the Pada inattentively, one may use forms which belong to the Samhita-text. But in reciting the Krama both the Sambitâ and Pada forms are used together, and therefore mistakes are less likely to happen. From earth and sky. Cf. Kh. Up. II, 22, 3.
From the sky and from heaven.
Nirbhuga may mean without arms, as if the arms of the words were taken away, or with two arms stretched out, the two words forming, as it were, two arms to one body.
• Pratrinna means cut asunder, every word being separated from the others.
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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 |