{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe15/sbe15066.htm","path":"hin/sbe15/sbe15066.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15066.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 2 (SBE15), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. Then Bhugyu L\u00e2hy\u00e2yani asked. 'Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya,' he said, 'we wandered about as students 3, and came to the house of Pata\u00f1kala K\u00e2pya. He had a daughter who was possessed by a Gandharva. We asked him, 'Who art thou?' and he (the Gandharva) replied: 'I am Sudhanvan, the \u00c2\u1e45girasa.' And when we asked him about the ends of the world, we said to him, 'Where were the P\u00e2rikshitas 4? Where then were the P\u00e2rikshitas, I ask thee, Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya, where were the P\u00e2rikshitas?'\n2. Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya said: 'He said to thee, I suppose, that they went where those go who have performed a horse-sacrifice.'\nHe said: 'And where do they go who have performed a horse-sacrifice?'\nY\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya replied: 'Thirty-two journeys of the car of the sun is this world. The earth surrounds it on every side, twice as large, and the ocean surrounds this earth on every side, twice as large. Now there is between 1 them a space as large as the edge of a razor or the wing of a mosquito. Indra, having become a bird, handed them (through the space) to V\u00e2yu (the air), and V\u00e2yu (the air), holding them within himself, conveyed them to where they dwell who have performed a horse-sacrifice. Somewhat in this way did he praise V\u00e2yu indeed. Therefore V\u00e2yu (air) is everything by itself, and V\u00e2yu is all things together. He who knows this, conquers death.' After that Bhugyu L\u00e2hy\u00e2yani held his peace.\n127:2 M\u00e2dhyandina text, p. 1070.\n127:3 The commentator explains karak\u00e2h as adhyayan\u00e2rtham vratakaran\u00e2k karak\u00e2h, adhvaryavo v\u00e2. See Professor R. G. Bhandarkar, in Indian Antiquary, 1883, p. 145.\n127:4 An old royal race, supposed to have vanished from the earth.\n128:1 The commentator explains that this small space or hole is between the two halves of the mundane egg.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 2 (SBE15): Brihad\u00e2ranyaka Upanishad: III, 3","type":"page"}