{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01200.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01200.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01200.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. When he recites the Nishkevalya hymn addressed to Indra (Rv. X, 50), pra vo mahe, he inserts a Nivid 2 (between the fourth and fifth verses). Thus he clearly places strength in himself (in the sastra, in the bird, in himself).\n2. They are Trishtubhs and Gagat\u00ees.\n3. There they say: 'Why does he insert a Nivid among mixed Trishtubhs and Gagat\u00ees 1?' But surely one metre would never support the Nivid of this day, nor fill it: therefore he inserts the Nivid among mixed Trishtubhs and Gagat\u00ees.\n4. Let him know that this day has three Nivids: the Vasa hymn is a Nivid, the V\u00e2lakhilyas 2 are a Nivid, and the Nivid itself is a Nivid. Thus let him know that day as having three Nivids.\n5. Then follow the hymns vane na v\u00e2 (Rv. X, 29) and yo g\u00e2ta eva (Rv. II, 12). In the fourth verse of the former hymn occur the words anne samasya yad asan man\u00eesh\u00e2h, and they serve for the winning of proper food.\n6. Then comes an insertion. As many Trishtubh and Gagat\u00ee verses 3, taken from the ten Mandalas and addressed to Indra, as they insert (between the two above-mentioned hymns), after changing them into Brihat\u00ees, so many years do they live beyond the (usual) age (of one hundred years). By this insertion age is obtained.\n7. After that he recites the Sagan\u00eeya hymn, wishing that cattle may always come to his offspring.\n8. Then he recites the T\u00e2rkshya hymn 4. T\u00e2rkshya is verily welfare, and the hymn leads to welfare. Thus (by reciting the hymn) he fares well 5.\n9. Then he recites the Ekapad\u00e2 (indro visvam vi r\u00e2gati), wishing, May I be everything at once, and may I thus finish the whole work of metres 1.\n10. In reciting the hymn indram visv\u00e2 avivridhan (Rv. I, 11) he intertwines the first seven verses by intertwining their feet 2. There are seven pr\u00e2nas (openings) in the head, and he thus places seven pr\u00e2nas in the head. The eighth verse (half-verse) he does not intertwine 3. The eighth is speech, and he thinks, May my speech never be intertwined with the other pr\u00e2nas. Speech therefore, though dwelling in the same abode as the other pr\u00e2nas, is not intertwined with them.\n11. He recites the Vir\u00e2g verses 4. Verily, Vir\u00e2g verses are food, and they thus serve for the gaining of food.\n12. He ends with the hymn of Vasishtha 5, wishing, May I be Vasishtha!\n13. But let him end with the fifth verse, esha stomo maha ugr\u00e2ya v\u00e2he, which, possessing the word mahat, is auspicious.\n14. In the second foot of the fifth verse the word dhuri occurs. Verily, dhuh (the place where the horse is fastened to the car) is the end (of the car). This day also is the end (of the sacrifice which lasts a whole year) 6. Thus the verse is fit for the day.\n15. In the third foot the word arka is auspicious.\n16. The last foot is: 'Make our glory high as heaven over heaven.' Thus wherever Brahmanic speech is uttered, there his glory will be, when he who knows this finishes with that verse. Therefore let a man who knows this, finish (the Nishkevalya) with that verse.\n194:1 He repeats the S\u00fbdadohas verse no more. Comm.\n194:2 Sentences like indro devah somam pibatu.\n195:1 According to the Prakriti of the Agnishtoma they ought to be all Trishtubhs. Comm.\n195:2 These hymns occur in the eighty Brihat\u00ee tristichs.\n195:3 From the Samhit\u00e2, which consists of ten thousand verses. Comm.\n195:4 Rv. X, 178. T\u00e2rksha Garuda being the deity of the hymn, it is called T\u00e2rkshya.\n195:5 Cf. I, 5, 3, 13\n196:1 The Ekapad\u00e2 forms the last metre in this ceremony.\n196:2 The first and last half-verses of the hymn are not to be intertwined. Of the remaining fourteen half-verses he joins, for instance, the fourth foot of the first verse with the second foot of the second verse, and so on. Comm.\n196:3 Because nothing more follows. Comm.\n196:4 Rv. VII, 22, 1-6.\n196:5 Rv. VII, 24.\n196:6 The last day is the udayan\u00eey\u00e2tir\u00e2tra. Comm.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Aitareya-\u00c2ranyaka: ...","type":"page"}