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Chāndogya Upaniṣad 6.5.3

ChU 6.5.3

तेजो ऽशितं त्रेधा विधीयते । तस्य यः स्थविष्ठो धातुस् तद् अस्थि भवति । यो मध्यमः स मज्जा । यो ऽणिष्ठः सा वाक्

tejo 'śitaṃ tredhā vidhīyate | tasya yaḥ sthaviṣṭho dhātus tad asthi bhavati | yo madhyamaḥ sa majjā | yo 'ṇiṣṭhaḥ sā vāk

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

'Fire (i.e. in oil, butter, &c.) when eaten becomes threefold; its grossest portion becomes bone, its middle portion marrow, its subtilest portion speech.

Translated by F. Max Müller

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Cite as: Chāndogya Upaniṣad 6.5.3, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/ChU/6.5.3), 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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