{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01182.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01182.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01182.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. Some say: 'Let him take a G\u00e2yatr\u00ee hymn for the Pra-uga. Verily, G\u00e2yatr\u00ee is brightness and glory of countenance, and thus the sacrificer becomes bright and glorious.'\n2. Others say: 'Let him take a Ushnih hymn for the Pra-uga. Verily, Ushnih is life, and thus the sacrificer has a long life.'\nOthers say: 'Let him take an Anushtubh hymn\nfor the Pra-uga. Verily, Anushtubh is valour, and it serves for obtaining valour.'\nOthers say: 'Let him take a Brihat\u00ee hymn for the Pra-uga. Verily, Brihat\u00ee is fortune, and thus the sacrificer becomes fortunate.'\nOthers say: 'Let him take a Pa\u1e45kti hymn for the Pra-uga. Verily, Pa\u1e45kti is food, and thus the sacrificer becomes rich in food.'\nOthers say: 'Let him take a Trishtubh hymn for the Pra-uga. Verily, Trishtubh is strength, and thus the sacrificer becomes strong.'\nOthers say: 'Let him take a Gagat\u00ee hymn for the Pra-uga. Verily, cattle is Gagat\u00ee-like, and thus the sacrificer becomes rich in cattle.'\nBut we say: 'Let him take a G\u00e2yatr\u00ee hymn only. Verily, G\u00e2yatr\u00ee is Brahman, and that day (the mah\u00e2vrata) is (for the attainment of) Brahman. Thus he obtains Brahman by means of Brahman.\n4. 'And it must be a G\u00e2yatr\u00ee hymn by Madhukkhandas,\n5. 'For Madhukkhandas is called Madhukkhandas, because he wishes (khandati) for honey (madhu) for the Rishis.\n6. 'Now food verily is honey, all is honey, all desires are honey, and thus if he recites the hymn of Madhukkhandas, it serves for the attainment of all desires.\n7. 'He who knows this, obtains all desires.'\nThis (G\u00e2yatr\u00ee pra-uga), according to the one-day (ek\u00e2ha) ceremonial 1, is perfect in form 2. On that day (the mah\u00e2vrata) much is done now and then which\nhas to be hidden 1, and has to be atoned for y recitation of hymns). Atonement (s\u00e2nti) is rest, the one-day sacrifice. Therefore at the end of the year (on the last day but one of the sacrifice that lasts a whole year) the sacrificers rest on this atonement as their rest.\n8. He who knows this rests firm, and they also for whom a Hotri priest who knows this, recites this hymn.\n161:3 Thus far the hymn which has to be recited by the Hotri priest, after the eating of the ritugrabas, has been considered. What follows next is the so-called Pra-uga hymn, consisting of seven trikas, which the Hotri has to recite after the Visvedevagraha. Different S\u00e2kh\u00e2s recommend hymns of different metres, our S\u00e2kh\u00e2 fixes on the G\u00e2yatr\u00ee.\n162:1 It is copied from the Visvagit, and that from the Agnishtoma.\n162:2 Nothing is wanting for its performance, if one only follows the rules given in the Agnishtoma.\n163:1 D\u00e2s\u00eenritya-bahubh\u00fbtamaithuna-brahmak\u00e2ripumskal\u00eesamprav\u00e2-d\u00e2dikam. See Rajendralal Mitra, Introduction to his edition of the Aitareya-\u00e2ranyaka, p. 25. It might be better to join ek\u00e2hah with s\u00e2nty\u00e2m, but even then the argumentation is not quite clear.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Aitareya-\u00c2ranyaka: I, 1, 3","type":"page"}