{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01199.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01199.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01199.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. He recites the Vasa hymn 1, wishing, May everything be in my power.\n2. They (its verses) are twenty-one 2, for twenty-one are the parts (the lungs, spleen, &c.) in the belly.\n3. Then the Ekavimsa is verily the support of all Stomas, and the belly the support of all food.\n4. They consist of different metres. Verily, the intestines are confused, some small, some large.\n5. He recites them with the pranava 3, according to the metre 4, and according to rule 5. Verily, the intestines are according to rule, as it were; some shorter, some longer.\n6. Next comes the S\u00fbdadohas verse. S\u00fbdadohas verily is breath. He joins the joints; with breath.\n7. After having recited that verse twelve times he\nleaves it off there. These pr\u00e2nas are verily twelvefold, seven in the head, two on the breast, three below. In these twelve places the pr\u00e2nas are contained, there they are perfect. Therefore he leaves it off there 1.\n8. The hymn indr\u00e2gn\u00ee yuvam su nah (Rv. VIII, 40) forms the two thighs (of the bird) belonging to Indra and Agni, the two supports with broad bones.\n9. These (verses) consist of six feet, so that they may stand firm. Man stands firm on two feet, animals on four. He thus places man (the sacrificer), standing on two feet, among four-footed cattle.\n10. The second verse has seven feet, and he makes it into a G\u00e2yatr\u00ee and Anushtubh. G\u00e2yatr\u00ee is Brahman, Anushtubh is speech; and he thus puts together speech with Brahman.\n11. He recites a Trishtubh at the end. Trishtubh is strength, and thus does he come round animals by strength. Therefore animals come near where there is strength (of command, &c.); they come to be roused and to rise up, (they obey the commands of a strong shepherd.)\n193:1 Having recited the verses which form the body, neck, head, wings, and tail of the bird, also the food intended for the bird, he now describes the Vasa hymn, i.e. the hymn composed by Vasa, Rv. VIII, 46. That hymn takes the place of the stomach which receives the food intended for the bird. Cf. Ait. \u00c2r. V, 2, 5. In I, 5, 2, 4 it is called a Nivid.\n193:2 Verses 1-20 of the Vasa hymn, and one S\u00fbdadohas.\n193:3 Pran\u00e2vam means 'with pranava,' i.e. inserting Om in the proper places.\n193:4 According as the metres of the different verses are fixed by Saunaka, Ait. \u00c2r. V, 2, 5, who says that verse 15 is Dvipad\u00e2, and that the last four words, n\u00fbnam atha, form an Ekapad\u00e2.\n193:5 According to rule, i.e. so that they should come right as \u00c2sval\u00e2yana has prescribed the recitation of Dvipad\u00e2 and Ekapad\u00e2 verses. In a Dvipad\u00e2 there should be a stop after the first foot, and Om at the end o f the second. Ira an Ekapad\u00e2 there should be Om at the beginning and at the end.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Aitareya-\u00c2ranyaka: ...","type":"page"}