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Chāndogya Upaniṣad 4.4.5

Chāndogyopaniṣad 4.4.5

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Sanskrit

4.4.5

taṃ ha uvāca \
na etad abrahmaṇo vivaktum arhati \
samidhaṃ somyāhara \
upa tvā neṣye na satyād agā iti \
tam upanīya kṛśānām abalānāṃ catuḥśatā gā nirākṛtya uvāca imāḥ somya anusaṃvrajeti \
tā abhiprasthāpayann uvāca \
na asahasreṇāvarteyeti \
sa ha varṣagaṇaṃ provāsa \
tā yadā sahasraṃ sampeduḥ \\404.5\

5. To him he then said: ‘A non-Brahman (a-brāhmaṇa) would not be able to explain thus. Bring the fuel, my dear. I will receive you as a pupil. You have not deviated from the truth.’

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

After having received him as a pupil, he separated out four hundred lean, weak cows and said: ‘Follow these, my dear.’

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

As he was driving them on, he said: ‘I may not return without a thousand.’ So he lived away a number of years. When they came to be a thousand,

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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