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Passages similar to: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad — Brahmana 14
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Hindu
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 14 (5.14.5)
Some recite this Savitrl stanza as Anushtubh meter, saying: 'The speech is Anushtubh meter. We recite the speech accordingly/ One should not so do. One should recite the Savitrl stanza as Gayatri meter. Verily, even if one who knows thus receives very much, that is not at all in comparison with one single line of the Gayatri.
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 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 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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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 VII, Khanda 2 (1)
Speech makes us understand the Rig-veda, Yagur-veda, Sâma-veda, and as the fourth the Âtharvana, as the fifth the Itihâsa-purâna, the Veda of the Veda...
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Zoroastrian
Yasna 46 — Ushtavaiti Gatha (17)
Where in your measured verse I will declare aloud (the praises), not in unmeasured lines, Gâmâspa Hvôgva! but songs of homage (will I weave) with...
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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 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 V, Khanda 2 (7)
Then he eats with the following Rik verse at every foot: 'We choose that food'--here he swallows--'Of the divine Savitri (prâna)'--here he...
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Buddhist
Chapter VIII: The Thousands (102)
Though a man recite a hundred Gâthâs made up of senseless words, one word of the law is better, which if a man hears, he becomes quiet.
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Hindu
Kṣhetra Kṣhetrajña Vibhāga Yoga (13.5)
All this has been sung by sages in many and different ways, in various distinctive hymns, and also in well reasoned and convincing passages...
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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 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 22 (5)
All vowels are to be pronounced with voice (ghosha) and strength (bala), so that the Udgâtri may give strength to Indra. All sibilants are to be...
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Hindu
Third Mundaka, Second Khanda (11)
The Rishi Aṅgiras formerly told this true (science); a man who has not performed the (proper) rites, does not read it. Adoration to the highest...
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 22 (2)
Let a man sing , wishing to obtain by his song immortality for the Devas. 'May I obtain by my song oblations (svadhâ) for the fathers, hope for men,...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 9 (3)
Atidhanvan Saunaka, having taught this udgîtha to Udara-sândilya, said: 'As long as they will know in your family this udgîtha, their life in this...
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Hindu
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...
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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 I, Khanda 10 (10)
In the same manner he addressed the Udgâtri: 'Udgâtri, if you, without knowing the deity which belongs to the udgîtha (the hymns of the Udgâtri), are...
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