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Chandogya Upanishad 3.3

Chāndogyopaniṣad 3.3

Language
Sanskrit

3.3.1

atha ye asya pratyaṅco raśmāyas tā evāsya pratīcyo madhunāḍyaḥ \
sāmāny eva madhukṛtaḥ \
sāmaveda eva puṣpam \
tā amṛtā āpaḥ \\303.1\

1. So its western rays are its western honey-cells. The bees are the Sāman chants. The flower is the Sāma-Veda. The drops of nectar fluid [arose as follows].

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

3.3.2

tāni vā etāni sāmāny etaṃ sāmavedam abhyatapan \
tasyābhitaptasya yaśas teja indriyaṃ vīryam annādyaṃ raso 'jāyata \\303.2\

2. Verily, those Sāman chants brooded upon that Sāma-Veda. From it, when it had been brooded upon, there was produced as its essence splendor, brightness, power, vigor, and food.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

3.3.3

tad vyakṣarat \
tad ādityam abhito 'śrayat \
tad vā etad yad etad ādityasya kṛṣṇaṃ rūpam \\303.3\

3. It flowed forth. It repaired to the sun. Verily, that is what that dark appearance of the sun is.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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