Chāndogya Upaniṣad 2.11
Chāndogyopaniṣad 2.11
- Language
- Sanskrit
2.11.1
mano (S )kāraḥ \
vāk prastāvaḥ \
cakṣur udgīthaḥ \
śrotraṃ pratihāraḥ \
prāṇo nidhanam \
etad gāyatraṃ prāṇeṣu protam \\211.1\
1. The wind is a Hiṅkāra. Speech is a Prastāva. The eye is an Udgītha. The ear is a Pratihāra. The breath is a Nidhana. This is the Gāyatrī Sāman as woven upon the vital breaths (prāṇa).
2.11.2
sa ya evam etad gāyatraṃ prāṇeṣu protaṃ veda \
prāṇī bhavati \
sarvam āyur eti \
jyog jīvati \
mahān prajayā paśubhir bhavati \
mahān kīrtyā \
mahāmanāḥ syāt \
tad vratam \\211.2\
2. He who knows thus this Gāyatrī Sāman as woven upon the vital breaths becomes possessor of vital breaths, reaches a full length of life, lives long, becomes great in offspring and in cattle, great in fame. One should be great-minded. That is his rule.
Translations (2)
- The Thirteen Principal Upanishads — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English
Commentaries (7)
- Chāndogyopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Chāndogyaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS) — Sanskrit
- Bhāṣya of Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha — Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha, Sanskrit
- Chāndogyabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin, Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha, Sanskrit
Linked texts (1)
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Paul Deussen & A. S. Geden, English