Śāṅkhāyana (Kauṣītaki) Āraṇyaka 8.1

8.1

ŚĀ 8,1
prāṇo vaṃśa iti ha smāha sthaviraḥ śākalyaḥ | tadu yathā śālāvaṃśe sarve 'nye vaṃśāḥ samāhitāḥ syur evam evaitasmin prāṇe sarva ātmā samāhitaḥ | tasyaitadyātmanaḥ prāṇa ūṣmarūpam asthīni sparśarūpaṃ majjānaḥ svararūpaṃ māṃsaṃ lohitam ityetac caturtham antasthārūpam iti | treyaṃ tveva na etat proktam iti ha smāha hvastro māṇḍūkeyaḥ | tasyaitasya trayasya trīṇītaḥ ṣaṣṭiśatāni bhavanti saṃdhīnāṃ trīṇītas tāni saptaviṃśatiśatāni bhavanti | sapta vai viṃśatiśatāni saṃvatsarasyāhorātrāṇām | tat saṃvatsarasyāhorātrāṇyāpnoti | sa eṣa saṃvatsarasaṃmānaś cakṣurmayaś śrotramayaś chandomayo manomayo vāṅmaya ātmā | sa ya evam etaṃ saṃvatsarasaṃmānaṃ cakṣurmayaṃ śrotramayaṃ chandomayaṃ manomayaṃ vāmayam ātmānaṃ veda saṃvatsarasya sāyaujyaṃ salokatāṃ sarūpatāṃ sabhakṣatām aśnute | putrī paśumān bhavati sarvam āyur etyasyāruṇikeyo devayāñcakre ||

ŚĀ 8.1
"Breath is the beam," old Śākalya used to say. Just as all the other beams are set upon the central ridge-beam of a house, even so this entire self is set upon this breath. Of this self, breath is the form of the sibilants, bones of the stops, marrow of the vowels, and the fourth, flesh and blood, is the form of the semivowels. "Only this threefold [division] was proclaimed, not that [fourfold one]," Hvastra Māṇḍūkeya used to say. Of this threefold [division], there are three hundred and sixty junctions here, and three hundred and sixty there; they become twenty-seven hundred. Twenty-seven hundred indeed are the days and nights of a year. Thereby he obtains the days and nights of the year. This same self is the measure of the year, consisting of sight, consisting of hearing, consisting of metre, consisting of mind, consisting of speech. He who thus knows this self, which is the measure of the year, consisting of sight, consisting of hearing, consisting of metre, consisting of mind, consisting of speech, attains union with the year, dwelling in the same world, having the same form, and sharing the same food. He becomes possessed of sons, possessed of cattle; he reaches a full lifespan. To him [the son of] Āruṇi made divine offering.