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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (1.3.1)
The gods (devd) and the devils (asurd) were the twofold offspring of Prajapati. Of these the gods were the younger, the devils the older. They were struggling with each other for these worlds. The gods said • * Come, let us overcome the devils at the sacrifice with the Udgitha.' 2
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka I, Khanda 2 (1)
When the Devas and Asuras struggled together, both of the race of Pragâpati, the Devas took the udgîtha (Om), thinking they would vanquish the Asuras...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VIII, Khanda 7 (2)
The Devas (gods) and Asuras (demons) both heard these words, and said: 'Well, let us search for that Self by which, if one has searched it out, all...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka II, Khanda 9 (5)
What he is just at noon, that is the udgîtha. On it the Devas are dependent (because they are brilliant). Therefore they are the best of all the...
Mundaka Upanishad
Second Mundaka, First Khanda (7)
From him the many Devas too are begotten, the Sâdhyas (genii), men, cattle, birds, the up and down breathings, rice and corn (for sacrifices),...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka I, Khanda 4 (2)
The Devas, being afraid of death, entered upon (the performance of the sacrifice prescribed in) the threefold knowledge (the three Vedas). They...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka II, Khanda 24 (13)
Next the Sâman addressed to the Visve Devas: 'Open the door of the world (heaven), let us see thee, that we may rule supreme (in heaven).'
Mundaka Upanishad
First Mundaka, First Khanda (1)
BRAHMA was the first of the Devas, the maker of the universe, the preserver of the world. He told the knowledge of Brahman, the foundation of all...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka I, Khanda 4 (3)
Then, as a fisherman might observe a fish in the water, Death observed the Devas in the Rik, Yagus, and Sâman-(sacrifices). And the Devas seeing...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 8 (2)
'On that altar the Devas (prânas) offer seed, From that oblation rises the germ.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka II, Khanda 23 (3)
Pragâpati brooded on the worlds. From them, thus brooded on, the threefold knowledge (sacrifice) issued forth. He brooded on it, and from it, thus...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka I, Khanda 2 (3)
Then they meditated on the udgîtha (Om) as speech, but the Asuras pierced it with evil. Therefore we speak both truth and falsehood. For speech is...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VIII, Khanda 8 (4)
And Pragâpati, looking after them, said: 'They both go away without having perceived and without having known the Self, and whoever of these two , whe...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 32 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (3)
He who offers sacrifice to You the most is of the Lie-demon, and (he is a child) of perversion . In advance (are your) deceits whereby ye are famed in...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka IV, Khanda 17 (1)
Pragâpati brooded over the worlds, and from them thus brooded on he squeezed out the essences, Agni (fire) from the earth, Vâyu (air) from the sky,...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 30 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (6)
As they were questioning and debating in their council the (personified ) Worst Mind approached them that he might be chosen. (They made their fatal d...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka I, Khanda 2 (6)
Then they meditated on the udgîtha (Om) as the mind, but the Asuras pierced it with evil. Therefore we conceive both what should be conceived and...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka II, Khanda 24 (1)
The teachers of Brahman (Veda) declare, as the Prâtah-savana (morning-oblation) belongs to the Vasus, the Mâdhyandina-savana (noon-libation) to the...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka I, Khanda 6 (8)
Rik and Sâman are his joints, and therefore he is udgîtha. And therefore he who praises him (the ut) is called the Ud-gâtri (the out-singer). He (the...
Bhagavad Gita
Viśhwarūpa Sandarśhana Yoga (11.22)
The Rudras, Ādityas, Vasus, and Sādhyas; the Viśwas, Aświns, Maruts, and Ushmapās; and the hosts of Gandharvas, Yakshas, Asuras, and Siddhas— all...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 30 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (3)
Thus are the primeval spirits who as a pair (combining their opposite strivings), and (yet each) independent in his action, have been famed (of old)....
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