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Chandogya Upanishad 3.15.2

Chāndogyopaniṣad 3.15.2

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Sanskrit

3.15.2

tasya prācī dig juhūr nāma \
sahamānā nāma dakṣiṇā \
rājñī nāma pratīcī \
subhūtā nāmodīcī \
tāsāṃ vāyur vatsaḥ \
sa ya etam evaṃ vāyuṃ diśāṃ vatsaṃ veda na putrarodaṃ roditi \
so 'ham etam evaṃ vāyuṃ diśāṃ vatsaṃ veda \
mā putrarodaṃ rudam \\315.2\

2. Its eastern quarter is named Sacrificial Ladle (_juhū_). Its southern quarter is named Over-powering. Its western quarter is named Queen (_rājñī_). Its northern quarter is named Wealthy. The wind is the child of these quarters of heaven. He who knows this wind thus as the child of the quarters of heaven mourns not for a son.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

‘I here know this wind thus as the child of the quarters of heaven. Let me not mourn for a son.’

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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