Chāndogya Upaniṣad 2.10

2.10.1

atha khalv ātmasaṃmitam atimṛtyu saptavidhaṃ sāmopāsīta \
(S )kāra iti tryakṣaram \
prastāva iti tryakṣaram \
tat samam \\210.1\

1. Now then, one should reverence the Sāman, measured (sammita) in itself, as leading beyond death.

hiṅkāra has three syllables. prastāva has three syllables. That is the same (sama).

2.10.2

ādir iti dvyakṣaram \
pratihāra iti caturakṣaram \
tata ihaikam \
tat samam \\210.2\

2. ādi has two syllables. pratihāra has four syllables. One from there, here—that is the same.

2.10.3

udgītha iti tryakṣaram upadrava iti caturakṣaraṃ tribhis tribhiḥ samaṃ bhavati \
akṣaram atiśiṣyate tryakṣaram \
tat samam \\210.3\

3. udgītha has three syllables. upadrava has four syllables. Three and three—that is the same, one syllable left over. Having three syllables—that is the same.

2.10.4

nidhanam iti tryakṣaram \
tat samam eva bhavati \
tāni ha vā etāni dvāviṃśatir akṣarāṇi \\210.4\

4. nidhana has three syllables. That is the same, too. These are twenty-two syllables.

2.10.5

ekaviṃśatyādityam āpnoti \
ekaviṃśo vā ito 'sāv ādityaḥ \
dvāviṃśena param ādityāj jayati \
tan nākam \
tad viśokam \\210.5\

5. With the twenty-one one obtains the sun. Verily, the sun is the twenty-first from here. With the twenty-two one wins what is beyond the sun. That is heaven (nākam). That is the sorrowless.

2.10.6

āpnotīhādityasya jayam \
paro hāsyādityajayāj jayo bhavati ya etad evaṃ vidvān ātmasaṃmitam atimṛtyu saptavidhaṃ sāmopāste sāmopāste \\210.6\

6. He obtains the victory of the sun, indeed, a victory higher than the victory of the sun is his, who, knowing this thus, reverences the sevenfold Sāman, measured in itself, as leading beyond death—yea, who reverences the Sāman!