Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 6.2.13
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 6.2.13
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.2.13
yoṣā vā agnirgautama tasyā upastha eva samillomāni dhūmo yonirarciryadantaḥ karoti te'ṅgārā abhinandā visphuliṅgāstasminnetasminnagnau devā reto juhvati tasyā āhutyai puruṣaḥ saṃbhavati sa jīvati yāvajjīvatyatha yadā mriyate
Woman, O Gautama, is fire. In this fire the gods offer the seed. Out of that offering a man is born. He lives as long as he is destined to live. Then, when he dies,
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
Discussed in (4)
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Macdonell & Keith 1912, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Keith 1925, English
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Deussen & Geden 1899, English
- Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra — Chakladar 1929, English