Jaiminīya Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa 3.12
Jaiminīyopaniṣadbrāhmaṇa 3.12
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- Sanskrit
3.12.1
etad vai tisṛbhir āvṛdbhir imāṁś ca lokāñ jayaty etaiś cainam bhūtais samardhayati yāny abhisambhavati /
Indeed, by these three turns he wins these worlds and enriches him with these beings into which he enters.
3.12.2
atha vā ato hiṅkārasyaiva
taṃ ha svarge loke santam mṛtyur anvety aśanayā /
Now then concerning the hiṅkāra alone:
when he is in the heavenly world, hunger, which is death, pursues him.
3.12.3
śrīr vā eṣā prajāpatis sāmno yad dhiṅkāraḥ
tam id udgātā śriyā prajāpatinā hiṅkāreṇa mṛtyum apasedhati /
The hiṅkāra is prosperity, it is Prajāpati of the sāman.
With prosperity, with Prajāpati, with the hiṅkāra, the udgātṛ keeps off death from him.
3.12.4
hum mety āha mātra nu gā yatraitad yajamāna iti haitat /
He says: 'hum mā'—this means: 'Do not go there now, where this sacrificer is.'
3.12.5
sa yathā śreyasā siddhaḥ pāpīyān prativijata evaṃ haivāsmān mṛtyuḥ pāpmā prativijate /
Just as a worse person chased away by a better one shrinks back, so does evil death shrink back from him.
3.12.6
yan mety āha candramā vai mā māsaḥ
eṣa ha vai mā māsaḥ
tasmān mety āha
bhā iti haitat parokṣeṇeva
yasmād v eva mety āha yad v eva mety āhaitāni trīṇi
tasmān mety brūyāt /
tṛtīye 'nuvāke dvitīyaḥ khaṇḍaḥ //
When he says 'mā': the moon indeed is 'mā', the month [māsa].
This month indeed is 'mā'.
Therefore he says 'mā'.
This is indirectly as 'bhā' [light].
And because he says 'mā', and because he says 'mā'—these three [meanings].
Therefore he should say 'mā'.
Second khaṇḍa in the third anuvāka.
Translations (1)
- English (machine translation) — English, machine translation
Linked texts (1)
- Jaiminīyopaniṣad — Sanskrit
Discussed in (2)
- The History and Culture of the Indian People — Majumdar et al. 1951, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Macdonell & Keith 1912, English