Jaiminīya Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa 2.8
Jaiminīyopaniṣadbrāhmaṇa 2.8
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2.8.1
sa hovāca tvam me bhagava udgāya ya etasya sarvasya yaśo ['sī]ti /
He said: “Venerable sir, chant for me, you who [are] the glory of this all!”
2.8.2
tasya hāyāsya evojjagau
tasmād udgātā vṛta uttarato niveśanaṃ lipseta
etad dha nāruddhaṃ niveśanaṃ yad uttarataḥ /
Ayāsya indeed chanted for him.
Therefore, an udgātṛ once chosen should seek a lodging to the north.
For that is an unobjectionable lodging which is to the north.
2.8.3
uttarata āgato 'yāsya āṅgirasaś śaryātasya mānavasyojjagau
sa prāṇena devān devaloke 'dadhād apānena manuṣyān manuṣyaloke vyānena pitṝn pitṛloke hiṅkāreṇa vajreṇāsmāl lokād asurān anudata /
Ayāsya Āṅgirasa, having arrived from the north, chanted for Śaryāta Mānava.
With breath he placed the gods in the world of the gods, with out-breath men in the world of men, with diffused breath the ancestors in the world of the ancestors, and with the hiṅkāra as a thunderbolt he drove the asuras away from this world.
2.8.4
tān hovāca dūraṃ gacchateti
sa dūro ha nāma lokaḥ
taṃ ha jagmuḥ
ta ete 'surā asambhāvyam parābhūtāḥ /
He said to them: “Go far away!”
Far away is indeed the name of that world;
to that they went.
These asuras were defeated beyond restoration.
2.8.5
chandobhir eva vācā śaryātam mānavaṃ svargaṃ lokaṃ gamayāṃ cakāra /
Through the metres, through speech alone, he made Śaryāta Mānava attain the heavenly world.
2.8.6
te hocur asurā eta taṃ vedāma yo no 'yam ittham adhatteti
tata āgacchan
tam etyāpaśyan /
The asuras said: “Come, let us find out who this is that has treated us thus.”
They came thither;
having approached, they saw him.
2.8.7
te 'bruvann ayaṃ vā āsya iti
yad abruvann ayaṃ vā āsya iti tasmād ayamāsyaḥ
ayamāsyo ha vai nāmaiṣaḥ
tam ayāsya iti parokṣam ācakṣate /
They said: “This one is in the mouth (ayam āsye).”
Because they said, “This one is in the mouth”, therefore he is Ayamāsya.
Ayamāsya indeed is his name;
him they cryptically call Ayāsya.
2.8.8
sa prāṇo vā ayāsyaḥ
prāṇo ha vā enān sa nunude /
Ayāsya is breath;
it was breath indeed that drove them away.
2.8.9
sa ya evaṃ vidvān udgāyati prāṇenaiva devān devaloke dadhāty apānena manuṣyān manuṣyaloke vyānena pitṝn pitṛloke hiṅkāreṇaiva vajreṇāsmāl lokād dviṣantam bhrātṛvyaṃ nudate /
tṛtīye 'nuvāke dvitīyaḥ khaṇḍaḥ //
He who, knowing thus, chants—with breath he places the gods in the world of the gods, with out-breath men in the world of men, with diffused breath the ancestors in the world of the ancestors, and with the hiṅkāra as a thunderbolt he drives away the hateful rival from this world.
Second khaṇḍa in the third anuvāka.
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- Jaiminīyopaniṣad — Sanskrit
Discussed in (1)
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Macdonell & Keith 1912, English