Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.5.1
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 1.5.1
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- Sanskrit
1.5.1
yatsaptānnāni medhayā tapasājanayatpitā ekamasya sādhāraṇaṃ dve devānabhājayat trīṇyātmane'kuruta paśubhya ekaṃ prāyacchat tasminsarvaṃ pratiṣṭhitaṃ yacca prāṇiti yacca na kasmāttāni na kṣīyante'dyamānāni sarvadā yo vaitāmakṣitiṃ veda so'nnamatti pratīkena sa devānapigacchati sa ūrjamupajīvati iti ślokāḥ
That the father produced seven kinds of food through meditation and rites (I shall disclose). One is common to all eaters. Two he apportioned to the gods. Three he designed for himself. And one he gave to the animals. On it rests everything—what lives and what does not. Why are they not exhausted, although they are always being eaten? He who knows this cause of their permanence, eats food with Pratīka (pre-eminence). He attains (identity with) the gods and lives on nectar. These are the verses.
Translations (3)
- The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya — Swami Madhavananda 1934, English
- The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English
- The Upanishads — Swami Nikhilananda 1949, English
Commentaries (10)
- Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text) — Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama 1820, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaṭīkā — Sanskrit
- Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- Dīpikā of Vidyāraṇya — Mādhava, Sanskrit
Discussed in (2)
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- The Great Epic of India: Its Character and Origin — Hopkins 1901, English