Chāndogya Upaniṣad 4.17

4.17.1

prajāpatir lokān abhyatapat \
teṣāṃ tapyamānānāṃ rasān (S ) \
agniṃ pṛthivyāḥ \
vāyum antarikṣāt \
ādityaṃ divaḥ \\417.1\

1. Prajāpati brooded upon the worlds. As they were being brooded upon, he extracted their essences: fire from the earth, wind from the atmosphere, the sun from the sky.

4.17.2

sa etās tisro devatā abhyatapat \
tāsāṃ tapyamānānāṃ rasān (S ) \
agner ṛcaḥ \
vāyor yajūṃṣi \
sāmāny ādityāt \\417.2\

2. Upon these three deities he brooded. As they were being brooded upon, he extracted their essences: from the fire, the Rig verses; from the wind, the Yajus formulas; the Sāman chants, from the sun.

4.17.3

sa etāṃ trayīṃ vidyām abhyatapat \
tasyās tapyamānāyā rasān (S ) \
bhūr ity ṛgbhyaḥ \
bhuvar iti yajurbhyaḥ \
svar iti sāmabhyaḥ \\417.3\

3. Upon this threefold knowledge he brooded. As it was being brooded upon, he extracted its essences: *bhūr* from the Rig verses, *bhuvas* from the Yajus formulas, *svar* from the Sāman chants.

4.17.4

tad yady ṛkto riṣyed bhūḥ svāheti gārhapatye juhuyāt \
ṛcām eva tadrasenarcāṃ vīryeṇarcāṃ yajñasya viriṣṭaṃ saṃdadhāti \\417.4\

4. So if there should come an injury in connection with the Rig verses, one should make an oblation in the householder's (Gārhapatya) fire with the words '*bhūr*! Hail!' So by the essence of the Rig verses themselves, by the power of the Rig verses he mends the injury to the Rig verses of the sacrifice.

4.17.5

atha yadi yajuṣṭo riṣyed bhuvaḥ svāheti dakṣiṇāgnau juhuyāt \
yajuṣām eva tadrasena yajuṣāṃ vīryeṇa yajuṣāṃ yajñasya viriṣṭaṃ saṃdadhāti \\417.5\

5. Moreover, if there should come an injury in connection with the Yajus formulas, one should make an oblation in the southern (Dakshiṇa) fire with the words '*bhuvas*! Hail!' So by the essence of the Yajus formulas themselves, by the power of the Yajus formulas he mends the injury to the Yajus formulas of the sacrifice.

4.17.6

atha yadi sāmato riṣyet svaḥ svāhety āhavanīye juhuyāt \
sāmnām eva tadrasena sāmnāṃ vīryeṇa sāmnāṃ yajñasya viriṣṭaṃ saṃdadhāti \\417.6\

6. Moreover, if there should come an injury in connection with the Sāman chants, one should make an oblation in the eastern (Āhavanīya) fire with the words '*svar*! Hail!' So by the essence of the Sāman chants, by the power of the Sāman chants he mends the injury to the Sāman chants of the sacrifice.

4.17.7

tad yathā lavaṇena suvarṇaṃ saṃdadhyāt \
suvarṇena rajataṃ rajatena trapu trapuṇā sīsaṃ sīsena lohaṃ lohena dāru (S ) \\417.7\

7. So, as one would mend gold with borax-salt, silver with gold, tin with silver, lead with tin, iron with lead, wood with iron or with leather, even so with the power of those worlds, of those divinities, of that triple knowledge one mends the injury to the sacrifice. Verily, that sacrifice is healed in which there is a Brahman priest who knows this.

4.17.8

evam eṣāṃ lokānām āsāṃ devatānām asyās trayyā vidyāyā vīryeṇa yajñasya viriṣṭaṃ saṃdadhāti \
bheṣajakṛto ha vā eṣa yajño yatra evaṃvid brahmā bhavati \\417.8\

4.17.9

eṣa ha vā udakpravaṇo yajño yatra evaṃvid brahmā bhavati \
evaṃvidaṃ ha vā eṣā brahmāṇam anu gāthā \
yato yata āvartate tat tad gacchati \\417.9\

9. Verily, that sacrifice is inclined to the north in which there is a Brahman priest who knows this. Verily, there is this song on the Brahman priest who knows this:— Whichever way he turns himself, In that same way goes common man. The Brahman priest alone protects The sacrificers like a dog.

4.17.10

mānavaḥ \
brahmaivaika ṛtvik (S ) \
evaṃvid dha vai brahmā yajñaṃ yajamānaṃ sarvāṃś cartvijo 'bhirakṣati \
tasmād evaṃvidam eva brahmāṇaṃ kurvīta nānevaṃvidaṃ nānevaṃvidam \\417.10\

Verily, the Brahman priest who knows this guards the sacrifice, the institutor of the sacrifice, and all the priests. Therefore one should make as his Brahman priest one who knows this, not one who does not know this—yea, not one who does not know this.