Upnishad

SR No.: 007670
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

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III ĀRANYAKA, I ADHYAYA, 5 KHANDA, 6.
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FIFTH KHANDA. 1. Now those who repeat the Nirbhuga say:
2. The former half 1 is the first syllable, the latter half the second syllable, and the space between the first and second halves is the Samhità (union).'
3. He who thus knows this Samhità (union), becomes united with offspring, cattle, fame, glory of countenance, and the world of Svarga. He lives his full age.
4. Now Hrasva Mandakeya says: 'We reciters of Nirbhuga say, “ Yes, the former half is the first syllable, and the latter half the second syllable, but the Samhità is the space between the first and second halves in so far as by it one turns out the union (sandhi), and knows what is the accent and what is not?, and distinguishes what is the mora and what is not.”
5. He who thus knows this Samhità (union), becomes united with offspring, cattle, fame, glory of countenance, and the world of Svarga. He lives his full age.
6. Now his middle son, the child of his mother Práttbodhi, says : 'One pronounces these two syllables letter by letter, without entirely separating
· As spoken of before, III, 1, 1, 1.
* In agnim ile, ile by itself has no accent, but as joined by sandhi with. agnim, its first syllable becomes svarita, its second prakita. In tava it, the vowel i is a short mora or mâtrâ; but if joined with va, it vanishes, and becomes long e, tavet. .Comm.
* Prátîbodhiputra, the son of Prâtîbodhi, she being probably one out of several wives of Hrasva. Another instance of this metronymic nomenclature occurred in Krishna Devakîputra, Kh. Up. III, 7, 6. The Kashmir MS. reads Prâkîbodhf, but Pratibodha is a recognised name in Gana Vidadi, and the right reading is probably Prátibodhi. The same MS. leaves out putra aba.
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