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Chāndogya Upaniṣad 4.2

Chāndogyopaniṣad 4.2

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Sanskrit

4.2.1

tad u ha jānaśrutiḥ pautrāyaṇaḥ ṣaṭ śatāni gavāṃ niṣkam aśvatarīrathaṃ tad ādāya praticakrame \
taṃ hābhyuvāda \\402.1\

1. Then Jānaśruti, the great-grandson [of Janaśruta], took six hundred cows and a gold necklace and a chariot drawn by a she-mule, and went back to him. He said to him: 'Raikva, here are six hundred cows, and here is a gold necklace, and here is a chariot drawn by a she-mule. Now, Sir, teach me that divinity—the divinity which you reverence.'

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

4.2.2

raikvemāni ṣaṭ śatāni gavām ayaṃ niṣko 'yam aśvatarīrathaḥ \
anu ma etāṃ bhagavo devatāṃ śādhi yāṃ devatām upāssa iti \\402.2\

4.2.3

tam u ha paraḥ pratyuvācāha hāretvā śūdra tavaiva saha gobhir astv iti \
tad u ha punar eva jānaśrutiḥ pautrāyaṇaḥ sahasraṃ gavāṃ niṣkam aśvatarīrathaṃ duhitaraṃ tad ādāya praticakrame \\402.3\

3. And to him then the other replied: 'Oh! Necklace and carriage along with the cows be yours, O Śūdra!' And then again Jānaśruti, the great-grandson [of Janaśruta], taking a thousand cows and a gold necklace and a chariot drawn by a she-mule, and his daughter too, went unto him.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

4.2.4

taṃ hābhyuvāda \
raikvedaṃ sahasraṃ gavām ayaṃ niṣko 'yam aśvatarīratha iyaṃ jāyāyaṃ grāmo yasminn āsse anv eva mā bhagavaḥ śādhīti \\402.4\

4. Then he spoke unto him: 'Raikva, here are a thousand cows, and here is a gold necklace, and here is a chariot drawn by a she-mule, and here is a wife, and here is the village in which you dwell. Pray, Sir, do you teach me.'

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

4.2.5

tasyā ha mukham upodgṛhṇann uvācājahāremāḥ śūdrāneneva mukhenā ālāpayiṣyathā iti \
te haite raikvaparṇā nāma mahāvṛṣeṣu yatrāsmai uvāsa \
tasmai hovāca \\402.5\

5. Then, lifting up her face toward himself, he [i. e. Raikva] said: 'He has brought these [cows] along!—Śūdra, merely with this face you would cause me to speak.' —So those are called the Raikvaparṇa [villages], among the people of the Mahāvṛishas, where at his offer he lived. Then he said to him:—

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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