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# Chandogya Upanishad 2.2.2

Chāndogyopaniṣad 2.2.2

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya.2.2.2)

athāvṛtteṣu \  
dyaur (S )kāraḥ \  
ādityaḥ prastāvaḥ \  
antarikṣam udgīthaḥ \  
agniḥ pratihāraḥ \  
pṛthivī nidhanam \\202.2\

> Now, among the lower worlds: Heaven is the syllable hiṁ, the sun is Prastāva, the sky is Udgītha, the fire is Pratihāra, and the earth is Nidhana.  
> — Swami Swahananda 1956, The Chāndogya Upaniṣad

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## Translations (5)

- [The Chāndogya Upaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya~en-swahananda.2.2.2) — Swami Swahananda 1956, English
- [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya~en-muller.2.2.2) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English
- [The Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya~en-nikhilananda.2.2.2) — Swami Nikhilananda 1949, English
- [Chāndogya Upaniṣad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya~en-gambhirananda.2.2.2) — Swami Gambhirananda 1983, English
- [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya~en-hume.2.2.p3) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English

## Commentaries (7)

- [Chāndogyopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya!sankara.195.1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Chāndogyaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya!rangaramanuja.2.2.2.p1) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya!padapatha.2.2.2) — Sanskrit
- [Bhāṣya of Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya!siva-samkara-kavyatirtha.29.2) — Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha, Sanskrit
- [Chāndogyabhāṣya (Madhva)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya!madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya!upanisadbrahmayogin) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin, Sanskrit
- [Khaṇḍārtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya!raghavendra-tirtha) — Rāghavendra Tīrtha, Sanskrit

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