Chāndogya Upaniṣad 3.4

Chāndogyopaniṣad 3.4

Language: Sanskrit

3.4.1

atha ye asyodaṅco raśmayas tā evāsyodīcyo madhunāḍyaḥ \
atharvāṅgirasa eva madhukṛtaḥ \
itihāsapurāṇaṃ puṣpam \
tā amṛtā āpaḥ \\304.1\

1. So its northern rays are its northern honey-cells. The bees are the [Hymns] of the Atharvans and Aṅgirases. The flower is Legend and Ancient Lore (_itihāsa-purāṇa_). The drops of nectar fluid [arose as follows].
Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

3.4.2

te vā ete atharvāṅgirasa etad itihāsapūrāṇam abhyatapan \
tasyābhitaptasya yaśas teja indriyāṃ vīryam annādyaṃ raso 'jāyata \\304.2\

2. Verily, those [Hymns] of the Atharvans and Aṅgirases brooded upon that Legend and Ancient Lore. 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

3.4.3

tad vyakṣarat \
tad ādityam abhito 'śrayat \
tad vā etad yad etad ādityasya paraḥkṛṣṇaṃ rūpam \\304.3\

3. It flowed forth. It repaired to the sun. Verily, that is what that exceedingly dark appearance of the sun is.
Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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
Chāndogyabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
Bhāṣya of Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha — Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha, Sanskrit

Linked texts (8)

History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) — Radhakumud Mookerji, English
Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge — K. N. Jayatilleke, English
Studies in the Purāṇic Records on Hindu Rites and Customs — R. C. Hazra, English
Indian Philosophy — S. Radhakrishnan, English
Ancient Indian Historical Tradition — F. E. Pargiter, English
The Religions of India — Edward Washburn Hopkins, English