Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 6.4.5
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 6.4.5
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- Sanskrit
6.4.5
tadabhimṛśedanu vā mantrayeta yanme'dya retaḥ pṛthivīmaskāntsīdyadoṣadhīrapyasaradyadapaḥ | idamahaṃ tadreta ādade punarmāmaitvindriyaṃ punastejaḥ punarbhagaḥ | punaragnirdhiṣṇayā yathāsthānaṃ kalpantāmityanāmikāṅguṣṭhābhyāmādāyāntareṇa stanau vā bhruvau vā nimṛjyāt
If a man sees his reflection in water, he should recite the following Mantra: ‘(May the gods grant) me lustre, manhood, reputation, wealth and merits.’ She (his wife) is indeed the goddess of beauty among women. Therefore he should approach this handsome woman and speak to her.
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
Linked texts (2)
- Īśādiviṃśottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ — Sanskrit
- Īśādidvādaśopaniṣadaḥ — Sanskrit
Discussed in (4)
- The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies — Potter 1970, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Wackernagel & Debrunner 1896, German
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Deussen & Geden 1899, English