{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01034.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01034.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01034.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. The syllable H\u00e2u 2 is this world (the earth), the syllable H\u00e2i 3 the air, the syllable Atha the moon, the syllable Iha the self, the syllable \u00ce 4 is Agni, fire.\n2. The syllable \u00db is the sun, the syllable E is the Nihava or invocation, the syllable Auhoi 5 is the Visve Devas, the syllable Hi\u1e45 is Prag\u00e2pati, Svara 6 (tone) is breath (pr\u00e2na), the syllable Y\u00e2 is food, the syllable V\u00e2g 7 is Vir\u00e2g.\n3. The thirteenth stobha syllable, viz. the indistinct syllable Hu\u1e45, is the Undefinable (the Highest Brahman).\n4. Speech yields the milk, which is the milk of speech itself to him who knows this Upanishad (secret doctrine) of the S\u00e2mans in this wise. He becomes rich in food, and able to eat food 8,--yea, able to eat food.\n22:1 The syllables here mentioned are the so-called stobh\u00e2ksharas, sounds used in the musical recitation of the S\u00e2man hymns, probably to fill out the intervals in the music for which there were no words in the hymns. These syllables are marked in the MSS. of the S\u00e2ma-veda, but their exact character and purpose are not quite clear.\n22:2 A stobha syllable used in the Rathantara S\u00e2man.\n22:3 Used in the V\u00e2madevya S\u00e2man.\n22:4 The S\u00e2man addressed to Agni takes the syllable \u00ee as nidhana.\n22:5 The stobha syllables used in the S\u00e2man addressed to the Visve Devas.\n22:6 See Kh. Up. I, 4, 4.\n22:7 The commentator takes v\u00e2g as a stobha, as a syllable occurring in hymns addressed to Vir\u00e2g, and as implying either the deity Vir\u00e2g or food.\n22:8 wealthy and healthy.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Kh\u00e2ndogya Upanishad...","type":"page"}