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indeed is the home. He who knows this, becomes a home of his own people and a home of all men.
6. He who knows generation?, becomes rich in offspring and cattle. Seed indeed is generation. He who knows this, becomes rich in offspring and cattle.
7. These Prânas (senses), when quarrelling together as to who was the best, went to Brahman 2 and said : Who is the richest of us ?' He replied: 'He by whose departure this body seems worst, he is the richest. :
8. The tongue (speech) departed, and having been absent for a year, it came back and said : *How have you been able to live without me?' They replied : ‘Like unto people, not speaking with the tongue, but breathing with breath, seeing with the eye, hearing with the ear, knowing with the mind, generating with seed. Thus we have lived.' Then speech entered in.
9. The eye (sight) departed, and having been absent for a year, it came back and said: 'How have you been able to live without me?' They replied : ‘Like blind people, not seeing with the eye, but breathing with the breath, speaking with the tongue, hearing with the ear, knowing with the mind, generating with seed. Thus we have lived.' Then the eye entered in.
10. The ear (hearing) departed, and having been absent for a year, it came back and said: 'How have you been able to live without me?' They replied : ‘Like deaf people, not hearing with the ear,
? This is wanting in the Khând. Up. Roer and Poley read Pragâpati for pragâti. MS. I. 0.375 has pragâti, MS. I. O. 1973 pragâpati.
Here we have Pragâpati, instead of Brahman, in the Khând. Up.; also sreshtha instead of vasishtha.
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