Jaiminīya Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa 3.29
Jaiminīyopaniṣadbrāhmaṇa 3.29
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3.29.1
uccaiśśravā ha kaupayeyaḥ kauravyo rājāsa
tasya ha keśī dārbhyaḥ pāñcālo rājā svasrīya āsa
tau hānyonyasya priyāv āsatuḥ /
Uccaiḥśravas Kaupayeya was a king of the Kurus.
Keśin Dārbhya, king of the Pañcālas, was his sister’s son.
The two were dear to one another.
3.29.2
sa hoccaiśśravāḥ kaupayeyo 'smāl lokāt preyāya
tasmin ha prete keśī dārbhyo 'raṇye mṛgayāṃ cacārāpriyaṃ vininīṣamāṇaḥ /
That Uccaiḥśravas Kaupayeya departed from this world.
When he had died, Keśin Dārbhya roamed in the forest on a hunt, wishing to dispel his grief.
3.29.3
sa ha tathaiva palyayamāno mṛgān prasarann antareṇaivoccaiśśravasaṃ kaupayeyam adhijagāma /
Rushing along in that very manner, pursuing the wild beasts, he came right upon Uccaiśśravas Kaupayeya.
3.29.4
taṃ hovāca dṛpyāmi svī3j jānāmīti
na dṛpyasīti hovāca jānāsi
sa evāsmi yam mā manyasa iti /
He said to him: "Am I mad, or do I recognise [you]?"
"You are not mad," he said, "you recognise [me]. I am indeed he whom you think me to be."
3.29.5
atha yad bhagava āhur iti hovāca ya āvir bhavaty anye 'sya lokam upayantīty atha katham aśako ma āvir bhavitum iti /
"Now, revered sir, they say," he said, "'He who becomes manifest—others enter into his world.' How then were you able to become manifest to me?"
3.29.6
om iti hovāca yadā vai tasya lokasya goptāram avide 'tas ta āvir abhūvam apriyaṃ cāsya vineṣyāmy anu cainaṃ śāsiṣyāmīti /
"Om," he said. "When indeed I found a guardian for that world, then I became manifest to you, [thinking:] 'I shall dispel his sorrow and instruct him.'"
3.29.7
tathā bhagava iti hovāca
taṃ vai nu tvā pariṣvajā iti
taṃ ha sma pariṣvajamāno yathā dhūmaṃ vāpīyād vāyuṃ vākāśaṃ vāgnyarciṃ vāpo vaivaṃ ha smainaṃ vyeti
na ha smainam pariṣvaṅgāyopalabhate /
ṣaṣthe 'nuvāke prathamaḥ khaṇḍaḥ //
"So be it, revered sir," he said. "Let me then embrace you."
Whenever he embraced him, he slipped away from him just as one might pass through smoke, or wind, or space, or the flame of a fire, or water. He could not grasp him in an embrace.
First subsection in the sixth anuvāka.
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Discussed in (4)
- Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government — Coomaraswamy 1942, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Macdonell & Keith 1912, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Keith 1925, English
- Die Religion des Veda — Oldenberg 1894, German