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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Chāndogya Upanishad / Adhyāya 1 · Khaṇḍa 13

CHĀNDOGYA UPANISHAD · 1.13.2

आदित्य ऊकारः ।
निहव एकारः ।
विश्वे देवा औहोयिकारः ।
प्रजपतिर् हिङ्कारः ।
प्राणः स्वरः ।
अन्नं या ।
वाग् विराट् ॥

āditya ūkāraḥ ।
nihava ekāraḥ ।
viśve devā auhoyikāraḥ ।
prajapatir hiṅkāraḥ ।
prāṇaḥ svaraḥ ।
annaṃ yā ।
vāg virāṭ ॥

The syllable Û is the sun, the syllable E is the Nihava or invocation, the syllable Auhoi is the Visve Devas, the syllable Hiṅ is Pragâpati, Svara (tone) is breath (prâna), the syllable Yâ is food, the syllable Vâg is Virâg.

F. Max Müller · The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East 1 (1879)

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