[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Vedic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda) › [Āraṇyakas (forest texts)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka) › [Śāṅkhāyana (Kauṣītaki) Āraṇyaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki) › 8.2 # Śāṅkhāyana (Kauṣītaki) Āraṇyaka 8.2 Śāṅkhāyanāraṇyaka 8.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.8.2) ŚĀ 8,2 atha kauṣṭharavyaḥ | trīṇi ṣaṣṭiśatānyakṣarāṇām | trīṇi ṣaṣṭiśatānyūṣmaṇām | trīṇi ṣaṣṭiśatāni saṃdhīnām | yānyakṣarāṇyavocāmāhāni tāni | yān ūṣmaṇo rātrayastāḥ | yān saṃdhīn avocāmāhorātrāṇāṃ te saṃdhayaḥ | ityadhidaivatam | athādhyātmam - yānyakṣarāṇyadhidaivatam avocāmāsthīni tānyadhyātmam | yān ūṣmaṇo 'dhidaivatam avocāma +majjānas te 'dhyātmam | eṣa u ha vai saṃpratiprāṇo yan majjā etad retaḥ na vā ṛte prāṇād retasaḥ siddhir asti | yad vā ṛte prāṇād retaḥ sicyeta tat pūyen na saṃbhavet | yān saṃdhīn adhidaivatam avocāma parvāṇi tānyadhyātmam | tasyaitasyāsthnāṃ +majjā parvaṇām iti pañcetaścatvāriṃśacchatāni bhavanti | saṃdhīnāṃ pañcetastadaśītisahasraṃ bhavati | aśītisahasraṃ vārkalino bṛhatīr aharahani saṃpādayanti | sa eṣo 'haḥsaṃmānaś cakṣurmayaś śrotramayaś chandomayo manomayo vāṅmaya ātmā | sa ya evam etad ahaḥsaṃmānaṃ cakṣurmayaṃ śrotramayaṃ chandomayaṃ manomayaṃ vāmayam ātmānaṃ veda ahnāṃ sāyaujyaṃ salokatāṃ sarūpatāṃ sabhakṣatām aśnute | putrī paśumān bhavati sarvam āyur eti || > ŚĀ 8.2 > Now Kauṣṭharavya \[says\]: "Three hundred and sixty syllables; three hundred and sixty sibilants; three hundred and sixty junctions. The syllables that we spoke of are days. The sibilants are nights. The junctions that we spoke of are the junctions of the days and nights." Thus with respect to the deities. Now with respect to the self: The syllables that we spoke of with respect to the deities are bones with respect to the self. The sibilants that we spoke of with respect to the deities are marrow with respect to the self. This marrow is indeed the immediate breath; it is semen. For without breath there is no accomplishment of semen. If semen were emitted without breath, it would rot and not develop. The junctions that we spoke of with respect to the deities are joints with respect to the self. Of this \[person\], of bones, marrow, and joints, there are five hundred and forty here; of junctions, there are five hundred and forty here—that makes eighty thousand. The followers of Arkali complete eighty thousand Bṛhatīs day by day. This same self is the measure of a day, 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 a day, consisting of sight, consisting of hearing, consisting of metre, consisting of mind, consisting of speech, attains union with the days, 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.8.1) - [Next: 8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.8.3) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki~en-mt.8.2) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (7) - [Aitareyāraṇyaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.aitareya.3.2.2) — Sanskrit - [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s11.902) — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English - [The History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.weber-1878.c8.61) — Albrecht Weber, English - [Bahvṛcāraṇyabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.bahvrcaranyabhasya.11.p62) — Sanskrit - [Mahaitareya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mahaitareya.29.p2) — Sanskrit - [Śāṅkhāyanīyopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.sankhayaniyopanisad.9.2) — Sanskrit - [Aitareyāraṇyaka (Aitareya Mahīdāsa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.aitareyaranyaka.3.p18) — Aitareya Mahīdāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.8.2) · Pramāṇa