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Chāndogya Upaniṣad 3.6.1

ChU 3.6.1

तद् यत् प्रथमम् अमृतं तद् वसव उपजीवन्त्य् अग्निना मुखेन । न वै देवा अश्नन्ति न पिबन्ति । एतद् एवामृतं दृष्ट्वा तृप्यन्ति

tad yat prathamam amṛtaṃ tad vasava upajīvanty agninā mukhena | na vai devā aśnanti na pibanti | etad evāmṛtaṃ dṛṣṭvā tṛpyanti

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

On the first of these nectars (the red light, which represents fame, glory of countenance, vigour, strength, health) the Vasus live, with Agni at their head. True, the Devas do not eat or drink, but they enjoy by seeing the nectar.

Translated by F. Max Müller

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Cite as: Chāndogya Upaniṣad 3.6.1, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/ChU/3.6.1), 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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