naiveha kiṃ canāgra āsīt | mṛtyunaivedam āvṛtam āsīd aśanāyayā | aśanāyā hi mṛtyuḥ | tan mano 'kurutātmanvī syām iti | so 'rcann acarat | tasyārcata āpo 'jāyanta | arcate vai me kam abhūd iti | tad evārkyasyārkatvam | kaṃ ha vā asmai bhavati ya evam etad arkyasyārkatvaṃ veda
Sanskrit only: no published translation is held for this verse.
सो ऽकामयत -- द्वितीयो म आत्मा जायेतेति । स मनसा वाचं मिथुनं समभवद् अशनाया मृत्युः । तद् यद् रेत आसीत् स संवत्सरो ऽभवत् । न ह पुरा ततः संवत्सर आस । तम् एतावन्तं कालम् अबिभर् यावान्त् संवत्सरः । तम् एतावतः कालस्य परस्ताद् असृजत । तं जातम् अभिव्याददात् । स भाण् अकरोत् । सैव वाग् अभवत्
so 'kāmayata -- dvitīyo ma ātmā jāyeteti | sa manasā vācaṃ mithunaṃ samabhavad aśanāyā mṛtyuḥ | tad yad reta āsīt sa saṃvatsaro 'bhavat | na ha purā tataḥ saṃvatsara āsa | tam etāvantaṃ kālam abibhar yāvānt saṃvatsaraḥ | tam etāvataḥ kālasya parastād asṛjata | taṃ jātam abhivyādadāt | sa bhāṇ akarot | saiva vāg abhavat
Sanskrit only: no published translation is held for this verse.
स ऐक्षत यदि वा इमम् अभिमंस्ये कनीयो ऽन्नं करिष्य इति । स तया वाचा तेनात्मनेदं सर्वम् असृजत यद् इदं किञ्च -- ऋचो यजूंषि सामानि छन्दांसि यज्ञान् प्रजां पशून् । स यद्-यद् एवासृजत तत्तद् अत्तुम् अध्रियत । सर्वं वा अत्तीति तद् अदितेर् अदितित्वम् । सर्वस्यात्ता भवति सर्वम् अस्यान्नं भवति य एवम् एतद् अदितेर् अदितित्वं वेद
sa aikṣata yadi vā imam abhimaṃsye kanīyo 'nnaṃ kariṣya iti | sa tayā vācā tenātmanedaṃ sarvam asṛjata yad idaṃ kiñca -- ṛco yajūṃṣi sāmāni chandāṃsi yajñān prajāṃ paśūn | sa yad-yad evāsṛjata tattad attum adhriyata | sarvaṃ vā attīti tad aditer adititvam | sarvasyāttā bhavati sarvam asyānnaṃ bhavati ya evam etad aditer adititvaṃ veda
He thought, ‘If I kill him, I shall have but little food.’ He therefore brought forth by that speech and by that body (the year) all whatsoever exists, the Rik, the Ya^ws, the Saman, the metres, the sacrifices, men, and animals. And whatever he (Death) brought forth, that he resolved to eat (ad). Verily because he eats everything, therefore is Aditi (Death) called Aditi. He who thus knows why Aditi is called Aditi, becomes an eater of everything, and everything becomes his food.
Translated by F. Max MüllerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.
सो ऽकामयत -- भूयसा यज्ञेन भूयो यजेयेति । सो ऽश्राम्यत् । स तपो ऽतप्यत । तस्य श्रान्तस्य तप्तस्य यशो वीर्यम् उदक्रामत् । प्राणा वै यशो वीर्यम् । तत् प्राणेषूत्क्रान्तेषु शरीरं श्वयितुम् अध्रियत । तस्य शरीर एव मन आसीत्
so 'kāmayata -- bhūyasā yajñena bhūyo yajeyeti | so 'śrāmyat | sa tapo 'tapyata | tasya śrāntasya taptasya yaśo vīryam udakrāmat | prāṇā vai yaśo vīryam | tat prāṇeṣūtkrānteṣu śarīraṃ śvayitum adhriyata | tasya śarīra eva mana āsīt
He desired to sacrifice again with a greater sacrifice. He toiled and performed penance. And while he toiled and performed penance, glorious power went out of him. Verily glorious power means the senses (pri^a). Then when the senses had gone out, the body took to swelling (sva-yitum), and mind was in the body.
Translated by F. Max MüllerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.
so 'kāmayata -- medhyaṃ ma idaṃ syād ātmanvy anena syām iti | tato 'śvaḥ samabhavat | yad aśvat tan medhyam abhūd iti tad evāśvamedhasyāśvamedhatvam | eṣa ha vā aśvamedhaṃ veda ya enam evaṃ veda | tam anavarudhyaivāmanyata | taṃ saṃvatsarasya parastād ātmana ālabhata | paśūn devatābhyaḥ pratyauhat | tasmāt sarvadevatyaṃ prokṣitaṃ prājāpatyam ālabhante | eṣa vā aśvamedho ya eṣa tapati | tasya saṃvatsara ātmā | ayam agnir arkaḥ | tasyeme lokā ātmānaḥ | tāv etāv arkāśvamedhau | so punar ekaiva devatā bhavati mṛtyur eva | apa punarmṛtyuṃ jayati | nainaṃ mṛtyur āpnoti | mṛtyur asyātmā bhavati | sarvam āyur eti | etāsāṃ devatānām eko bhavati
He desired that this body should be fit for sacrifice (medhya), and that he should be embodied by it. Then he became a horse (asva), because it swelled (arvat), and was fit for sacrifice (medhya); and this is why the horse-sacrifice is called A.yva-medha. Verily he who knows him thus, knows the Ato- medha. Then, letting the horse free, he thought, and at the end of a year he offered it up for himself, while he gave up the (other) animals to the deities. Therefore the sacrifices offered up the purified horse belonging to Pra/apati, (as dedicated) to all the deities. Verily the shining sun is the Asvamedha-sacri- fice, and his body is the year; Agni is the sacrificial fire (arka), and these worlds are his bodies. These two are the sacrificial fire and the A-svamedha-sacri- fice, and they are again one deity, viz. Death. He (who knows this) overcomes another death, death does not reach him, death is his Self, he becomes one of those deities.
Translated by F. Max MüllerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.