{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01094.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01094.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01094.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. Prag\u00e2pati brooded over the worlds, and from them thus brooded on he squeezed out the essences, Agni (fire) from the earth, V\u00e2yu (air) from the sky, \u00c2ditya (the sun) from heaven.\n2. He brooded over these three deities, and from them thus brooded on he squeezed out the essences, the Rik verses from Agni, the Yagus verses from V\u00e2yu, the S\u00e2man verses from \u00c2ditya.\n3. He brooded over the threefold knowledge (the three Vedas), and from it thus brooded on he squeezed out the essences, the sacred interjection Bh\u00fbs from the Rik verses, the sacred interjection Bhuvas from the Yagus verses, the sacred interjection Svar from the S\u00e2man verses.\n4. If the sacrifice is injured from the Rig-Veda side, let him offer a libation in the G\u00e2rhapatya fire, saying, Bh\u00fbh, Sv\u00e2ha! Thus does he bind together and heal, by means of the essence and the power of the Rik verses themselves, whatever break the Rik sacrifice may have suffered.\n5. If the sacrifice is injured from the Yagur-veda side, let him offer a libation in the Dakshina fire, saying, Bhuvah, Sv\u00e2h\u00e2! Thus does he bind together and heal, by means of the essence and the power of the Yagus verses themselves, whatever break the Yagus sacrifice may have suffered.\n6. If the sacrifice is injured by the S\u00e2ma-veda side, let him offer a libation in the \u00c2havan\u00eeya fire, saying, Svah, Sv\u00e2h\u00e2! Thus does he bind together and heal, by means of the essence and the power of the S\u00e2man verses themselves, whatever break the S\u00e2man sacrifice may have suffered.\n7. As one binds (softens) gold by means of lavana 1 (borax), and silver by means of gold, and tin by means of silver, and lead by means of tin, and iron (loha) by means of lead, and wood by means of iron, or also by means of leather,\n8. Thus does one bind together and heal any break in the sacrifice by means of (the Vy\u00e2hritis or sacrificial interjections which are) the essence and strength of the three worlds, of the deities, and of the threefold knowledge. That sacrifice is healed 2 in which there is a Brahman priest who knows this.\n9. That sacrifice is inclined towards the north (in the right way) in which there is a Brahman priest who knows this. And with regard to such a Brahman priest there is the following G\u00e2th\u00e2 3: 'Whereever it falls back, thither the man 4 goes,'--viz. the Brahman only, as one of the Ritvig priests. 'He saves the Kurus as a mare' (viz. a Brahman priest who\nknows this, saves the sacrifice, the sacrificer, and all the other priests). Therefore let a man make him who knows this his Brahman priest, not one who does not know it, who does not know it.\n71:1 Lavana, a kind of salt, explained by ksh\u00e2ra and ta\u1e45ka or ta\u1e45kana. It is evidently borax, which is still imported from the East Indies under the name of tincal, and used as a flux in chemical processes.\n71:2 Bheshagakrita, explained by bheshagena 'iva kritah samskritah, and also by kikitsakena susikshitena 'esha yag\u00f1o bhavati,' which looks as if the commentator had taken it as a genitive of bheshagakrit.\n71:3 This G\u00e2th\u00e2 (or, according to Sa\u1e45kara, Anug\u00e2th\u00e2) is probably a G\u00e2yatr\u00ee, though \u00c2nandagiri says that it is not in the G\u00e2yatr\u00ee or any other definite metre. It may have been originally 'yato yata \u00e2vartate, tattad gakkhati m\u00e2navah, kur\u00fbn asv\u00e2bhirakshati.' This might be taken from an old epic ballad, 'Wherever the army fell back, thither the man went; the mare (mares being preferred to stallions in war) saves the Kurus.' That verse was applied to the Brahman priest succouring the sacrifice, whenever it seemed to waver, and protecting the Kurus, i. e. the performers of the sacrifice.\n71:4 M\u00e2nava, explained from mauna, or manana, but possibly originally, a descendant of Manu.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Kh\u00e2ndogya Upanishad...","type":"page"}