{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01212.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01212.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01212.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. While Visv\u00e2mitra was going to repeat the hymns of this day (the mah\u00e2vrata), Indra sat down near him 4. Visv\u00e2mitra (guessing that Indra wanted food) said to him, 'This (the verses of the hymn) is food,' and repeated the thousand Brihat\u00ee verses 5\n[paragraph continues] By means of this he went to the delightful home of Indra (Svarga).\n2. Indra said to him: 'Rishi, thou hast come to my delightful home. Rishi, repeat a second hymn 1.' Visv\u00e2mitra (guessing that Indra wanted food) said to him, 'This (the verses of the hymn) is food,' and repeated the thousand Brihat\u00ee verses. By means of this he went to the delightful home of Indra (Svarga).\n3. Indra said to him: 'Rishi, thou hast come to my delightful home. Rishi, repeat a third hymn.' Visv\u00e2mitra (guessing that Indra wanted food) said to him, 'This (the verses of the hymn) is food,' and repeated the thousand Brihat\u00ee verses. By means of this he went to the delightful home of Indra (Svarga).\n4. Indra said to him: 'Rishi, thou hast come to my delightful home. I grant thee a boon.' Visv\u00e2mitra said: 'May I know thee.' Indra said: 'I am Pr\u00e2na (breath), O Rishi, thou art Pr\u00e2na, all things are Pr\u00e2na. For it is Pr\u00e2na who shines as the sun, and I here pervade all regions under that form. This food of mine (the hymn) is my friend and my support (dakshina). This is the food prepared by Visv\u00e2mitra. I am verily he who shines (the sun).'\n218:4 Upanishasas\u00e2da, instead of upanishas\u00e2da. The mistake is probably due to a correction, sa for sha; the commentator, however, considers it as a Vedic license. Sk\u00e2ro 'dhikas kh\u00e2ndasah.\n218:5 These are meant for the Nishkevalya hymn recited at the noon-libation of the Mah\u00e2vrata. That hymn consists of ten parts, corresponding, as we saw, to ten parts of a bird, viz. its body, neck, head, root of wings, right wing, left wing, tail, belly, chest, and thighs. The verses corresponding to these ten parts, beginning with tad id asa bhuvaneshu gyeshtham, are given in the first \u00c2ranyaka, and more fully in the fifth \u00c2ranyaka by Saunaka. p. 219 Though they consist of many metres, yet, when one counts the syllables, they give a thousand Brihat\u00ee verses, each consisting of thirty-six syllables.\n219:1 Although the Nishkevalya is but one hymn, consisting of eighty trikas, yet as these eighty trikas were represented as three kinds of food (see Ait. \u00c2r. II, 1, 2, 2-4), the hymn is represented as three hymns, first as eighty G\u00e2yatr\u00ee trikas, then as eighty Brihat\u00ee trikas, lastly as eighty Ushnih trikas.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Aitareya-\u00c2ranyaka: II, 2, 3","type":"page"}