Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 6.2.11
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 6.2.11
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.2.11
ayaṃ vai loko'gnirgautama tasya pṛthivyeva samidagnirdhūmo rātrirarciścandramā aṅgārā nakṣatrāṇi visphuliṅgāstasminnetasminnegnau devā vṛṣṭiṃ juhvati tasyā āhutyā annam̐ saṃbhavati
This world, O Gautama, is fire, the earth is its fuel, fire its smoke, the night its flame, the moon its cinder, and the stars its sparks. In this fire the gods offer rain. Out of that offering food is produced.
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
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text) — Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha, Sanskrit
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaṭīkā — Sanskrit
- Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- Dīpikā of Vidyāraṇya — Mādhava, Sanskrit
Linked texts (6)
- Īśādiviṃśottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ — Sanskrit
- Aṣṭottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ — Sanskrit
- Mantrapuṣpa — Sanskrit
- Aṣṭāviṃśatyupaniṣad — Sanskrit
- Īśādidvādaśopaniṣadaḥ — Sanskrit
- Different Upaniṣads — Sanskrit
Discussed in (1)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English