Aitareyabrahmana 5.14

5.14

Nābhānediṣṭhaṃ śaṃsati
Nābhānediṣṭhaṃ vai Mānavam brahmacaryaṃ vasantam bhrātaro nirabhajan.
so 'bravīd etya:
kim mahyam abhāktety. etam eva niṣṭhāvam avavaditāram ity abruvaṃs.
tasmād dhāpy etarhi pitaram putrā:
niṣṭhāvo 'vavaditety evācakṣate
sa pitaram etyābravīt:
tvāṃ ha vāva mahyam tatābhākṣur iti.
tam pitābravīn:
mā putraka tad ādṛthā.
Aṅgiraso vā ime svargāya lokāya satram āsate,
te ṣaṣṭhaṃ-ṣaṣṭham evāhar āgatya muhyanti.
tān ete sūkte ṣaṣṭhe 'hani śaṃsaya,
teṣāṃ yat sahasraṃ satrapariveṣaṇaṃ tat te svar yanto dāsyantīti. tatheti
tān upait:
prati gṛbhṇīta mānavaṃ sumedhasa iti.
tam abruvan:
kiṃkāmo vadasītī,dam eva vaḥ ṣaṣṭham ahaḥ prajñāpayānīty abravīd,
atha yad va etat sahasraṃ satrapariveṣaṇaṃ tan me svar yanto dattehi.
tatheti. tān ete sūkte ṣaṣṭhe 'hani aśaṃsayat,
tato vai te pra yajñam ajānan pra svargaṃ lokaṃ
tad yad ete sūkte ṣaṣṭhe 'hani śaṃsati,
yajñasya prajñātyai svargasya lokasyānukhyātyai
taṃ svar yanto 'bruvann:
etat te brāhmaṇa sahasram iti.
tad enaṃ samākurvāṇam puruṣaḥ kṛṣṇaśavāsy uttarata upotthāyābravīn:
mama vā idam, mama vai vāstuham iti.
so 'bravīn:
mahyaṃ vā idam adur iti.
tam abravīt:
tad vai nau tavaiva pitari praśna iti.
sa pitaram ait, tam pitābravīn:
nanu te putrakādū+r ity.
adur eva ma, ity abravīt,
tat tu me puruṣah kṛṣṇaśavāsy uttarata upodatiṣṭhan:
mama vā idam, mama vai vāstuham ity aditeti.
tam pitābravīt:
tasyaiva putraka, tat-tat tu sa tubhyaṃ dāsyatīti.
sa punar etyābravīt:
tava ha vāva kila bhagava idam iti me pitāheti.
so 'bravīt:
tad ahaṃ tubhyam eva dadāmi ya eva satyam avādīr iti
tasmād evaṃ viduṣā satyam eva vaditavyaṃ
sa eṣa sahasrasanir mantro yan nābhānediṣṭha
upainaṃ sahasraṃ namati,
pra ṣaṣṭhenāhnā svargaṃ lokaṃ jānāti ya evaṃ veda

v. 14 (xxii. 9). He recites the Nābhānediṣṭha; Nābhānediṣṭha Mānava when he was performing his studentship, his brothers deprived of any share (in his father’s property). Having returned he said to them ‘What have you allotted to me?’ ‘This judgement giver, the decider’ they replied. Therefore now here the sons call the father ‘The judgement giver, the decider.’ He having gone to his father said ‘O father, they have allotted thee to me.’ To him said his father, ‘Do not care for that, O my boy. These Aṅgirases are performing a sacrificial session for the world of heaven; they fall into confusion whenever they reach the sixth day; make them recite these two hymns on the sixth day; when they go to the world of heaven they will bestow on thee the thousand which is the gift at the session.’ ‘Be it so’ (he said); he went to them (saying) ‘Accept the Mānava, O wise ones’. They replied to him, ‘What dost thou desire when thou sayest this?’ ‘Let me reveal to you the sixth day,’ he replied, ‘And when ye go to the heaven, do you give me the thousand which is the gift at the session.’ ‘Be it so’ (they said). Them he made to recite these two hymns on the sixth day; then indeed did they discern the sacrifice, the world of heaven. In that he recites these two hymns on the sixth day, (it is) to discern the sacrifice, to reveal the world of heaven. To him as they went to heaven they said ‘This thousand is for thee, O Brahman.’ As he was gathering it together, a man in black garments, coming from the north, said to him ‘Mine is this; mine is what is left on the place (of sacrifice).’ He said ‘To me have they given it.’ He replied ‘Then let us question thy father.’ He went to his father, to him his father said ‘Did not

they give it to thee, O son?’ ‘They did give it,’ he replied, ‘but a man in black garments came from the north upon me and (saying) “Mine is this; mine is what is left on the place (of sacrifice)” has taken it away.’ To him said his father, ‘His it is, O my boy; but he will give it to thee.’ Returning he said ‘Thine is this, O blessed one, so my father tells me’. He replied ‘I give it to thee who hast spoken the truth.’ Therefore by one who knows thus should truth alone be spoken. The Nābhānediṣṭha is a speech to win a thousand; a thousand comes to him, with the sixth day he discerns the world of heaven, who knows thus.