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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad / Adhyāya 4 · Brāhmaṇa 1

BṚHADĀRAṆYAKA UPANISHAD · 4.1.1

जनको ह वैदेह आसां चक्रे ।
अथ ह याज्ञवल्क्य आवव्राज ।
तं होवाच -- याज्ञवल्क्य किम् अर्थम् अचारीः पशून् इच्छन् अण्वन्तानीति ।
उभयम् एव संराड् इति होवाच ॥

janako ha vaideha āsāṃ cakre ।
atha ha yājñavalkya āvavrāja ।
taṃ hovāca -- yājñavalkya kim artham acārīḥ paśūn icchan aṇvantānīti ।
ubhayam eva saṃrāḍ iti hovāca ॥

When Ganaka Vaideha was sitting (to give audience), Yâgñavalkya approached, and Ganaka Vaideha said: 'Yâgñavalkya, for what object did you come, wishing for cattle, or for subtle questions?' Yâgñavalkya replied: 'For both, Your Majesty;

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

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