Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 5.8.1
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 5.8.1
- Language
- Sanskrit
5.8.1
vācaṃ dhenumupāsīta tasyāścatvāraḥ stanāḥ svāhākāro vaṣaṭkāro hantakāraḥ svadhākārastasyai dvau stanau devā upajīvanti svāhākāraṃ ca vaṣaṭkāraṃ ca hantakāraṃ manuṣyāḥ svadhākāraṃ pitarastasyāḥ prāṇa ṣabho mano vatsaḥ
One should meditate upon speech (the Vedas) as a cow (as it were). She has four teats—the sounds 'Swāhā,' 'Vashat,' 'Hanta' and 'Swadhā.' The gods live on two of her teats—the sounds 'Swāhā' and 'Vashat,' men on the sound 'Hanta,' and the Manes on the sound 'Swadhā.' Her bull is the vital force, and her calf the mind.
5.8.1.p1
iti pañcamādhyāye'ṣṭamaṃ brāhmaṇam
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
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin, Sanskrit
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaṭīkā — Sanskrit
- Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- Dīpikā of Vidyāraṇya — Mādhava, Sanskrit
Discussed in (1)
- The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels — Filliozat 1949, English