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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Chāndogya Upanishad / Adhyāya 8 · Khaṇḍa 11

CHĀNDOGYA UPANISHAD · 8.11.3

एवम् एवैष मघवन्न् इति होवाच ।
एतं त्व् एव ते भूयो ऽनुव्याख्यास्यामि ।
नो एवान्यत्रैतस्मात् ।
वसापराणि पञ्च वर्षाणीति ।
स हापराणि पञ्च वर्षाण्युवास ।
तान्य् एकशतं संपेदुः ।
एतत् तद् यद् आहुः ।
एकशतं ह वै वर्षाणि मघवान् प्रजापतौ ब्रह्मचर्यम् उवास ।
तस्मै होवाच ॥

evam evaiṣa maghavann iti hovāca ।
etaṃ tv eva te bhūyo ’nuvyākhyāsyāmi ।
no evānyatraitasmāt ।
vasāparāṇi pañca varṣāṇīti ।
sa hāparāṇi pañca varṣāṇyuvāsa ।
tāny ekaśataṃ saṃpeduḥ ।
etat tad yad āhuḥ ।
ekaśataṃ ha vai varṣāṇi maghavān prajāpatau brahmacaryam uvāsa ।
tasmai hovāca ॥

'So it is indeed, Maghavat,' replied Pragâpati; 'but I shall explain him (the true Self) further to you, and nothing more than this. Live here other five years.' He lived there other five years. This made in all one hundred and one years, and therefore it is said that Indra Maghavat lived one hundred and one years as a pupil with Pragâpati. Pragâpati said to him:

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

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