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Chāndogya Upaniṣad 1.9.1

ChU 1.9.1

अस्य लोकस्य का गतिर् इति । आकाश इति होवाच । सर्वाणि ह वा इमानि भूतान्य् आकाशाद् एव समुत्पद्यन्ते । आकाशं प्रत्य् अस्तं यन्ति । आकाशो ह्य् एवैभ्यो ज्यायान् । आकाशः परायणम्

asya lokasya kā gatir iti | ākāśa iti hovāca | sarvāṇi ha vā imāni bhūtāny ākāśād eva samutpadyante | ākāśaṃ praty astaṃ yanti | ākāśo hy evaibhyo jyāyān | ākāśaḥ parāyaṇam

Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.

'What is the origin of this world?' 'Ether,' he replied. For all these beings take their rise from the ether, and return into the ether. Ether is older than these, ether is their rest.

Translated by F. Max Müller

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Cite as: Chāndogya Upaniṣad 1.9.1, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/ChU/1.9.1), after GRETIL, Chandogya-Upanisad (Chandogyopanisad) Mula text extracted from the commented version.

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GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/chup___u.htm — Chandogya-Upanisad (Chandogyopanisad) Mula text extracted from the commented version. Input by members of the Sansknet project (formerly: www.sansknet.org) [GRETIL-Version vom 17.03.2017] Revisions: 2017-03-17: 7,16.1 added by James Fitzgerald This GRETIL vers

GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST. English: F. Max Müller (SBE, public domain).

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