Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad ("Great Forest Teaching") 1.2.4
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 1.2.4
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1.2.4
so'kāmayata dvitīyo ma ātmā jāyeteti sa manasā vācaṃ mithunam̐ samabhavadaśanāyā mṛtyustadyadreta āsītsa saṃvatsaro'bhavat | na ha purā tataḥ saṃvatsara āsa tametāvantaṃ kālamabibhaḥ | yāvānsaṃvatsarastametāvataḥ kālasya parastādasṛjata taṃ jātamabhivyādadātsa bhāṇakarotsaiva vāgabhavat
He desired, 'Let a second body be born of me,' and he (Death or Hunger) embraced Speech in his mind. Then the seed became the year. Before that time there was no year. Speech bore him so long as a year, and after that time sent him forth. Then when he was born, he (Death) opened his mouth, as if to swallow him. He cried Bhân! and that became speech.
Translations (1)
- The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English
Commentaries (7)
- Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS) — Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama 1820, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
Linked texts (13)
- Īśādiviṃśottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ — Sanskrit
- Mādhyandina — Sanskrit
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Aṣṭottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ — Sanskrit
- Mantrapuṣpa — Sanskrit
- Upaniṣads — Sanskrit
- Aṣṭāviṃśatyupaniṣad — Sanskrit
- Īśādyupaniṣadaḥ — Sanskrit
- Īśādidvādaśopaniṣadaḥ — Sanskrit
- Different Upaniṣads — Sanskrit
- Vedāntasamanvaya — Gurugovinda Rāya, Sanskrit
- Vājasaneyi bṛhadāraṇyaka — Sanskrit
- Madhukāṇḍa — Sanskrit