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Passages similar to: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad — Brahmana 2
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Hindu
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 2 (6.2.10)
A rain-cloud, verily, is a sacrificial fire, O Gautama. The year, in truth, is its fuel; the thunder-clouds, the smoke; the lightning, the flame, the thunder-bolts, the coals; the hail-stones, the sparks. In this fire the gods offer King Soma. From this oblation rain arises.
Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 5 (1-2)
'The altar is Parganya (the god of rain), O Gautama; its fuel is the air itself, the smoke the cloud, the light the lightning, the coals. the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 6 (2)
'On that altar the Devas (prânas) offer rain. From that oblation rises food (corn, &c.)
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 4 (1)
'The altar (on which the sacrifice is supposed to be offered) is that world (heaven), O Gautama; its fuel is the sun itself, the smoke his rays, the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 6 (1)
'The altar is the earth, O Gautama; its fuel is the year itself, the smoke the ether, the light the night, the coals the quarters, the sparks the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 15 (1)
The mists gather, that is the hiṅkâra; the cloud has risen, that is the prastâva; it rains, that is the udgîtha; it flashes and thunders, that is the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 3 (1)
Let a man meditate on the fivefold Sâman as rain. The hiṅkâra is wind (that brings the rain); the prastâva is, 'the cloud is come;' the udgîtha is,...
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 4 (2)
From that oblation rises Soma, the king (the moon)....
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Hindu
Second Mundaka, First Khanda (5)
From him comes Agni (fire), the sun being the fuel; from the moon (Soma) comes rain (Parganya); from the earth herbs; and man gives seed unto the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 4 (1)
Let a man meditate on the fivefold Sâman in all waters. When the clouds gather, that is the hiṅkâra; when it rains, that is the prastâva that which...
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 7 (1)
'The altar is man, O Gautama; its fuel speech itself, the smoke the breath, the light the tongue, the coals the eye, the sparks the ear.
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Hindu
Prapathaka VII, Khanda 11 (1)
For fire united with air, warms the ether. Then people say, It is hot, it burns, it will rain. Thus does fire, after showing this sign (itself) first,...
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 7 (2)
'On that altar the Devas (prânas) offer food. From that oblation rises seed.
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 8 (2)
'On that altar the Devas (prânas) offer seed, From that oblation rises the germ.
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Hindu
Prapathaka IV, Khanda 16 (1)
Verily, he who purifies (Vâyu) is the sacrifice, for he (the air) moving along purifies everything. Because moving along he purifies everything,...
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Hindu
Second Mundaka, First Khanda (6)
From him come the Rik, the Sâman, the Yagush, the Dîkshâ (initiatory rites), all sacrifices and offerings of animals, and the fees bestowed on...
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 22 (2)
'If Samâna is satisfied, the mind is satisfied, if the mind is satisfied, Parganya (god of rain) is satisfied, if Parganya is satisfied, lightning is...
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 3 (2)
The nidhana is, 'it stops.' There is rain for him, and he brings rain for others who thus knowing meditates on the fivefold Sâman as rain.
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Zoroastrian
Chapter VII (11)
Afterwards, with a cloud for a jar (khûmb)—thus they call the measure which was a means of the work—he seized upon the water and made it rain most...
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Hindu
First Mundaka, Second Khanda (5)
If a man performs his sacred works when these flames are shining, and the oblations follow at the right time, then they lead him as sun-rays to where...
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