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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad / Adhyāya 3 · Brāhmaṇa 1

BṚHADĀRAṆYAKA UPANISHAD · 3.1.2

तान् होवाच -- ब्राह्मणा भगवन्तो यो वो ब्रह्मिष्ठः स एता गा उदजताम् इति ।
ते ह ब्राह्मणा न दधृषुः ।
अथ ह याज्ञवल्क्यः स्वम् एव ब्रह्मचारिणम् उवाच -- एताः सौम्योदज सामश्रवा३ इति ।
ता होदाचकार ।
ते ह ब्राह्मणाश् चुक्रुधुः: -- कथं नु नो ब्रह्मिष्ठो ब्रुवीतेति ।
अथ ह जनकस्य वैदेहस्य होताश्वलो बभूव ।
स हैनं पप्रच्छ -- त्वं नु खलु नो याज्ञवल्क्य ब्रह्मिष्ठो ऽसी३ इति ।
स होवाच -- नमो वयं ब्रह्मिष्ठाय कुर्मो गोकामा एव वयं स्म इति ।
तं ह तत एव प्रष्टुं दध्रे होताश्वलः ॥

tān hovāca -- brāhmaṇā bhagavanto yo vo brahmiṣṭhaḥ sa etā gā udajatām iti ।
te ha brāhmaṇā na dadhṛṣuḥ ।
atha ha yājñavalkyaḥ svam eva brahmacāriṇam uvāca -- etāḥ saumyodaja sāmaśravā3 iti ।
tā hodācakāra ।
te ha brāhmaṇāś cukrudhuḥ: -- kathaṃ nu no brahmiṣṭho bruvīteti ।
atha ha janakasya vaidehasya hotāśvalo babhūva ।
sa hainaṃ papraccha -- tvaṃ nu khalu no yājñavalkya brahmiṣṭho ’sī3 iti ।
sa hovāca -- namo vayaṃ brahmiṣṭhāya kurmo gokāmā eva vayaṃ sma iti ।
taṃ ha tata eva praṣṭuṃ dadhre hotāśvalaḥ ॥

And Ganaka spoke to them: 'Ye venerable Brâhmanas, he who among you is the wisest, let him drive away these cows.' Then those Brâhmanas durst not, but Yâgñavalkya said to his pupil: 'Drive them away, my dear.' He replied: 'O glory of the Sâman ' and drove them away. The Brâhmanas became angry and said: 'How could he call himself the wisest among us?' Now there was Asvala, the Hotri priest of Ganaka Vaideha. He asked him: 'Are you indeed the wisest among us, O Yâgñavalkya?' He replied: 'I bow before the wisest (the best knower of Brahman), but I wish indeed to have these cows.' Then Asvala, the Hotri priest, undertook to question him.

F. Max Müller · The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East 15 (1884)

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