Chāndogya Upaniṣad 1.10

1.10.1

maṭacīhateṣu kuruṣv āṭikyā saha jāyayoṣastir ha cākrāyaṇa ibhyagrāme pradrāṇaka uvāsa \\110.1\

1. Among the Kurus, when they were struck by hailstorms, there lived in the village of a rich man a very poor man, Ushasti Cākrāyaṇa, with his wife Āṭikī.

1.10.2

sa hebhyaṃ kulmāṣān khādantaṃ bibhikṣe \
taṃ hovāca \
neto 'nye vidyante yac (S ) ma ima upanihitā iti \\110.2\

2. He begged of the rich man while he was eating beans. The latter said to him: 'I have no others than these which are set before me.'

1.10.3

eteṣāṃ me dehīti hovāca \
tān asmai pradadau \
hantānupānam iti \
ucchiṣṭaṃ vai me pītaṃ syād iti hovāca \\110.3\

3. 'Give me some of them,' said he.

He gave them to him and said: 'Here is drink.'

'Verily, that would be for me to drink leavings!' said he.

1.10.4

na svid ete apy ucchiṣṭā iti \
na vā ajīviṣyam imān akhādann iti hovāca \
kāmo ma udapānam iti \\110.4\

4. 'Are not these [beans] also leavings?' ‘Verily, I could not live, if I did not eat those,’ said he. ‘The drinking of water is at my will.’

1.10.5

sa ha khāditvātiśeṣāñ jāyāyā ājahāra \
sāgra eva subhikṣā babhūva \
tān pratigṛhya nidadhau \\110.5\

5. When he had eaten, he took what still remained to his wife. She had already begged enough to eat. She took these and put them away.

1.10.6

sa ha prātaḥ saṃjihāna uvāca \
yad batānnasya labhemahi labhemahi dhanamātrām \
rājāsau yakṣyate \
sa mā sarvair ārtvijyair vṛṇīteti \\110.6\

6. On the morrow he arose and said: ‘Oh, if we could get some food, we might get a little money! The king over there is going to have a sacrifice performed for himself. He might choose me to perform all the priestly offices.’

1.10.7

taṃ jāyovāca \
hanta pata ima eva kulmāṣā iti \
tān khāditvāmuṃ yajñaṃ vitatam eyāya \\110.7\

7. His wife said to him: ‘Here, my lord, are the beans.’ He ate them and went off to that sacrifice, which had already been begun.

1.10.8

tatrodgātṝn āstāve stoṣyamāṇān upopaviveśa \
sa ha prastotaram uvāca \\110.8\

8. There he approached the Udgātṛi priests as they were about to sing the Stotra in the place for the singing. Then he said to the Prastotṛi priest: ‘Prastotṛi priest, if you shall sing the Prastāva (Introductory Praise) without knowing the divinity which is connected with the Prastāva, your head will fall off.’

1.10.9

prastotar yā devatā prastāvam anvāyattā tāṃ ced avidvān prastoṣyasi mūrdhā te vipatiṣyatīti \\110.9\

1.10.10

evam evodgātāram uvāca \
udgātar yā devatodgītham anvāyattā tāṃ ced avidvān udgāsyasi mūrdhā te vipatiṣyatīti \\110.10\ evam eva pratihartāram uvāca \
pratihartar yā devatā pratihāram anvāyattā tāṃ ced avidvān pratihariṣyasi mūrdhā te vipatiṣyatīti \
te ha samāratās tūṣṇīm āsāṃ cakrire \\110.11\

10. Similarly also he said to the Udgātṛi priest: ‘Udgātṛi priest, if you shall chant the Udgītha (Loud Chant) without knowing the divinity which is connected with the Udgītha, your head will fall off.’

11. Similarly also he said to the Pratihartṛi priest: ‘Pratihartṛi priest, if you shall take up the Pratihāra (Response) without knowing the divinity which is connected with the Pratihāra, your head will fall off.’

Then they ceased and quietly seated themselves.