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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad / Adhyāya 3 · Brāhmaṇa 9

BṚHADĀRAṆYAKA UPANISHAD · 3.9.2

स होवाच -- महिमान एवैषाम् एते ।
त्रयस्त्रिंशत् त्व् एव देवा इति ।
कतमे ते त्रयस्त्रिंशद् इति ।
अष्टौ वसव एकादश रुद्रा द्वादशादित्याः त एकत्रिंशद् ऐन्द्रश् चैव प्रजापतिश् च त्रयस्त्रिंशाव् इति ॥

sa hovāca -- mahimāna evaiṣām ete ।
trayastriṃśat tv eva devā iti ।
katame te trayastriṃśad iti ।
aṣṭau vasava ekādaśa rudrā dvādaśādityāḥ ta ekatriṃśad aindraś caiva prajāpatiś ca trayastriṃśāv iti ॥

Yâgñavalkya replied: 'They are only the various powers of them, in reality there are only thirty-three gods.' He asked: 'Who are those thirty-three?' Yâgñavalkya replied: 'The eight Vasus, the eleven Rudras, the twelve Âdityas. They make thirty-one, and Indra and Pragâpati make the thirty-three.'

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

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