{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01231.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01231.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01231.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. Now those who repeat the Nirbhuga say:\n2. 'The former half 1 is the first syllable, the latter half the second syllable, and the space between the first and second halves is the Samhit\u00e2 (union).'\n3. He who thus knows this Samhit\u00e2 (union), becomes united with offspring, cattle, fame, glory of countenance, and the world of Svarga. He lives his full age.\n4. Now Hrasva M\u00e2nd\u00fbkeya says: 'We reciters of Nirbhuga say, \"Yes, the former half is the first syllable, and the latter half the second syllable, but the Samhit\u00e2 is the space between the first and second halves in so far as by it one turns out the union (sandhi), and knows what is the accent and what is not 2, and distinguishes what is the mora and what is not.\"'\n5. He who thus knows this Samhit\u00e2 (union), becomes united with offspring, cattle, fame, glory of countenance, and the world of Svarga. He lives his full age.\n6. Now his middle son, the child of his mother Pr\u00e2tibodh\u00ee 3, says: 'One pronounces these two syllables letter by letter, without entirely separating\nthem, and without entirely uniting them 1. Then that mora between the first and second halves, which indicates the union, that is the S\u00e2man (evenness, sliding). I therefore hold S\u00e2man only to be the Samhit\u00e2 (union).\n7. This has also been declared by a Rishi (Rv. II, 23, 16):--\n8. 'O Brihaspati, they know nothing higher than S\u00e2man.'\n9. He who thus knows this Samhit\u00e2 (union), becomes united with offspring, cattle, fame, glory of countenance, and the world of Svarga. He lives his full age.\n253:1 As spoken of before, III, 1, 1, 1.\n253:2 In agnim \u00eele, \u00eele by itself has no accent, but as joined by sandhi with agnim, its first syllable becomes svarita, its second prakita. In tava it, the vowel i is a short mora or m\u00e2tr\u00e2; but if joined with va, it vanishes, and becomes long e, tavet. Comm.\n253:3 Pr\u00e2t\u00eebodh\u00eeputra, the son of Pr\u00e2t\u00eebodh\u00ee, she being probably one out of several wives of Hrasva. Another instance of this metronymic nomenclature occurred in Krishna Devak\u00eeputra, Kh. Up. III, 7, 6. The Kashmir MS. reads Pr\u00e2k\u00eebodh\u00ee, but Pratibodha is a recognised name in Gana Vid\u00e2di, and the right reading is probably Pr\u00e2tibodh\u00ee. The same MS. leaves out putra \u00e2ha.\n254:1 So that the \u00ea in tavet should neither be one letter e, nor two letters a + i, but something between the two, enabling us to hear a + i in the pronunciation of \u00ea.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Aitareya-\u00c2ranyaka: ...","type":"page"}