{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01033.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01033.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01033.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. Now follows the udg\u00eetha of the dogs. Vaka D\u00e2lbhya, or, as he was also called, Gl\u00e2va Maitreya, went out to repeat the Veda (in a quiet place).\n2. A white (dog) appeared before him, and other dogs gathering round him, said to him: 'Sir, sing and get us food, we are hungry.'\n3. The white dog said to them: 'Come to me to-morrow morning.' Vaka D\u00e2lbhya, or, as he was also called, Gl\u00e2va Maitreya, watched.\n4. The dogs came on, holding together, each dog keeping the tail of the preceding dog in his mouth, as the priests do when they are going to sing praises with the Vahishpavam\u00e2na hymn 2. After they had settled down, they began to say Hi\u1e45.\n5. 'Om, let us eat! Om, let us drink! Om, may the divine Varuna, Prag\u00e2pati, Savitri 3 bring us food! Lord of food, bring hither food, bring it, Om!'\n21:1 There are certain etymological fancies for assigning each deity to a certain portion of the S\u00e2ma-veda ceremonial. Thus pr\u00e2na is assigned to the prast\u00e2va, because both words begin with pra. \u00c2ditya is assigned to the udg\u00eetha, because the sun is ut. Anna, food, is assigned to the pratih\u00e2ra, because food is taken, pratihriyate, &c.\n21:2 This alludes to a ceremony where the priests have to walk in procession, each priest holding the gown of the preceding priest.\n21:3 The commentator explains Varuna and Prag\u00e2pati as epithets of Savitri, or the sun, meaning rain-giver and man-protector.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Kh\u00e2ndogya Upanishad: I, 12","type":"page"}