Library·Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad (Kāṇva)·5·5.8

Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad (Kāṇva) 5.8

वाचं धेनुम् उपासीत । तस्याश् चत्वारः स्तनाः । स्वाहाकारो वषट्कारो हन्तकारः स्वधाकारः । तस्यै द्वौ स्तनौ देवा उपजीवन्ति । स्वाहाकारं च वषट्कारं च । हन्तकारं मनुष्याः । स्वधाकारं पितरः । तस्याः प्राण ऋषभो मनो वत्सः

vācaṃ dhenum upāsīta | tasyāś catvāraḥ stanāḥ | svāhākāro vaṣaṭkāro hantakāraḥ svadhākāraḥ | tasyai dvau stanau devā upajīvanti | svāhākāraṃ ca vaṣaṭkāraṃ ca | hantakāraṃ manuṣyāḥ | svadhākāraṃ pitaraḥ | tasyāḥ prāṇa ṛṣabho mano vatsaḥ

Let him meditate on speech as a cow. Her four udders are the words Svaha, Vasha/, Hanta, and Svadhi *. The gods live on two of her udders, the Svihi and the Vasha/, men on the Hanta, the fathers on the Svadha. The bull of that cow is breath (pra/za), the calf the mind.

Translated by F. Max MüllerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.