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Passages similar to: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad — Brahmana 14
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Hindu
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 14 (5.14.2)
r-cas (verses), ya-jwh-si (sacrificial formulas), sa-ma-ni (chants) 3 — eight syllables. Of eight syllables, verily, is one line of the Gayatrl. And that [series], indeed, is that [line] of it. As much as is this threefold knowledge, so much indeed does he win who knows thus that line of it.
Hindu
Prapathaka III, Khanda 16 (5)
The next forty-eight years are the third libation. The Gagatî has forty-eight syllables, the third libation is offered with Gagatî hymns. The Âdityas...
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Hindu
Prapathaka III, Khanda 12 (5)
That Gâyatrî has four feet and is sixfold . And this is also declared by a Rik verse (Rig-Veda X, 90, 3):--
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Hindu
Prapathaka III, Khanda 12 (1)
The Gâyatrî (verse) is everything whatsoever here exists. Gâyatrî indeed is speech, for speech sings forth (gâya-ti) and protects (trâya-te)...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 1 (9)
By that syllable does the threefold knowledge (the sacrifice, more particularly the Soma-sacrifice, as founded on the three Vedas) proceed. When the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 10 (1)
Next let a man meditate on the sevenfold Sâman which is uniform in itself and leads beyond death. The word hiṅkâra has three syllables, the word...
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Hindu
Prapathaka III, Khanda 16 (1)
Man is sacrifice. His (first) twenty-four years are the morning-libation. The Gâyatrî has twenty-four syllables, the morning-libation is offered with...
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 10 (3)
The word udgîtha has three syllables, the word upadrava has four syllables. With three and three syllables it should be equal. One syllable being...
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 21 (3)
Greater than these there is nothing else besides.'
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 4 (4)
When a man has mastered the Rig-veda, he says quite loud Om; the same, when he has mastered the Sâman and the Yagus. This Svara is the imperishable...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 1 (5)
The Rik indeed is speech, Sâman is breath, the udgîtha is the syllable Om. Now speech and breath, or Rik and Sâman, form one couple.
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 3 (4)
Speech is Rik, and therefore when a man utters a Rik verse he neither breathes up nor down. Rik is Sâman, and therefore when a man utters a Sâman...
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Hindu
Prapathaka III, Khanda 16 (3)
The next forty-four years are the midday-libation. The Trishtubh has forty-four syllables, the midday-libation is offered with Trishtubh hymns. The...
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 10 (2)
The word âdi (first, Om) has two syllables, the word pratihâra has four syllables. Taking one syllable from that over, that is equal (sama).
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 8 (1)
Next for the sevenfold Sâman. Let a man meditate on the sevenfold Sâman in speech. Whenever there is in speech the syllable huṅ , that is hiṅkâra,...
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Hindu
Prapathaka IV, Khanda 17 (3)
He brooded over the threefold knowledge (the three Vedas), and from it thus brooded on he squeezed out the essences, the sacred interjection Bhûs...
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Buddhist
Chapter VIII: The Thousands (101)
Even though a Gâthâ (poem) be a thousand (of words), but made up of senseless words, one word of a Gâthâ is better, which if a man hears, he becomes...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 3 (7)
Ut is heaven, gî the sky, tha the earth. Ut is the sun, gî the air, tha the fire. Ut is the Sâma-veda,, gî the Yagur-veda, tha the Rig-veda . Speech...
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Hindu
Prapathaka IV, Khanda 17 (2)
He brooded over these three deities, and from them thus brooded on he squeezed out the essences, the Rik verses from Agni, the Yagus verses from...
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 21 (1)
The hiṅkâra is the threefold knowledge, the prastâva these three worlds, the udgîtha Agni (fire), Vâyu (air), and Âditya (sun), the pratihâra the...
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Hindu
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...
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