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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad / Adhyāya 5 · Brāhmaṇa 14

BṚHADĀRAṆYAKA UPANISHAD · 5.14.2

ऋचो यजूषि सामानीत्य् अष्टाव् अक्षराणि ।
अष्टाक्षरं ह वा एकं गायत्र्यै पदम् ।
एतद् उ हैवास्या एतत् ।
स यावतीयं त्रयी विद्या तावद् ध जयति यो ऽस्या एतद् एवं पदं वेद ॥

ṛco yajūṣi sāmānīty aṣṭāv akṣarāṇi ।
aṣṭākṣaraṃ ha vā ekaṃ gāyatryai padam ।
etad u haivāsyā etat ।
sa yāvatīyaṃ trayī vidyā tāvad dha jayati yo ’syā etad evaṃ padaṃ veda ॥

The Rikas, the Yagûmshi, and the Sâmâni form eight syllables. One foot (the second) of the Gâyatrî consists of eight syllables. This (one foot) of it is that (i.e. the three Vedas, the Rig-veda, Yagur-veda, and Sama-veda). And he who thus knows that foot of it, conquers as far as that threefold knowledge extends.

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

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