{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01194.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01194.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01194.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. He begins with the hymn, Tad id \u00e2sa, bhuvaneshu gyeshtham (Rv. X, 120). Verily, gyeshtha, the oldest, is mahat, great. Endowed with mahat the form of this day is perfect.\n2. Then follows the hymn, T\u00e2m su te k\u00eertim maghavan mahitv\u00e2 (Rv. X, 54), with the auspicious word mahitv\u00e2.\n3. Then follows the hymn, Bh\u00fbya id vavridhe v\u00eery\u00e2ya (Rv. VI, 30), with the auspicious word v\u00eerya.\n4. Then follows the hymn, Nrin\u00e2m u tv\u00e2 nritamam gobhir ukthaih (Rv. I, 51, 4), with the auspicious word uktha.\n5. He extends the first two p\u00e2das, which are too small, by one syllable (Rv. X, 120, 1 a, and Rv. VIII, 69, 2 a) 2. Into the small heart the vital spirits are placed, into the small stomach food is placed. It\nserves for the attainment of these desires. He who knows this, obtains these desires.\n6. The two feet, each consisting of ten syllables (Rv. X, 120, 1 a, b), serve for the gaining of both kinds of food 1, of what has feet (animal food), and what has no feet (vegetable food).\n7. They come to be of eighteen syllables each 2. Of those which are ten, nine are the pr\u00e2nas (openings of the body) 3, the tenth is the (vital) self. This is the perfection of the (vital) self; Eight syllables remain in each. He who knows them, obtains whatever he desires.\n183:1 The number is obtained as follows:\n| 1. Tad id \u00e2sa (Rv. X, 120) = | 9 verses | \n| 2. T\u00e2m su te k\u00eertim (Rv. X, 54) = | 6 \" | \n| 3. Bh\u00fbya id vavridhe v\u00eery\u00e2ya (Rv. VI, 30) = | 5 \" | \n| 4. Nrin\u00e2m u tv\u00e2 (Rv. I, 51, 4) = | 3 \" | \n| | 23 + 2 = 25 | \n183:2 Cf. I, 1, 2, 9.\n184:1 Because Vir\u00e2g, a foot of ten syllables, is food.\n| Rv. X, 120, 1 a = | 10 | \n| Rv. VIII, 69, 2 a= | 7 | \n| Syllable pu = | 1 | \n| | 18 | \n184:3 Seven in the head and two in the body; sapta vai sirshany\u00e2h pr\u00e2n\u00e2 dv\u00e2v av\u00e2\u00f1k\u00e2v iti.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Aitareya-\u00c2ranyaka: I, 3, 7","type":"page"}