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Chandogya Upanishad

Prapathaka III, Khanda 4
Hindu trans. Max Müller • c. c. 800-600 BCE (translation 1879)
1
The northern rays of the sun are the honey-cells on the left. The (hymns of the) Atharvâṅgiras are the bees, the Itihâsa-purâna (the reading of the old stories) is the flower, the water is the nectar.
2
Those very hymns of the Atharvâṅgiras (as bees) brooded over the Itihâsa-purâna; and from it, thus brooded on, sprang as its (nectar) essence, fame, glory of countenance, vigour, strength, and health.
3
That flowed forth, and went towards the sun. And that forms what we call the extreme dark (parah krishnam) light of the sun.