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Chāndogya Upaniṣad 8.8.5

ChU 8.8.5

तस्माद् अप्यद्द्येहाददानम् अश्रद्दधानम् अयजमानम् आहुर् आसुरो बतेति । असुराणां ह्य् एषोपनिषत् । प्रेतस्य शरीरं भिक्षया वसनेनालंकारेणेति संस्कुर्वन्ति । एतेन ह्य् अम्मुं लोकं जेष्यन्तो मन्यन्ते

tasmād apyaddyehādadānam aśraddadhānam ayajamānam āhur āsuro bateti | asurāṇāṃ hy eṣopaniṣat | pretasya śarīraṃ bhikṣayā vasanenālaṃkāreṇeti saṃskurvanti | etena hy ammuṃ lokaṃ jeṣyanto manyante

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

Therefore they call even now a man who does not give alms here, who has no faith, and offers no sacrifices, an Âsura, for this is the doctrine (upanishad) of the Asuras. They deck out the body of the dead with perfumes, flowers, and fine raiment by way of ornament, and think they will thus conquer that world.

Translated by F. Max Müller

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Cite as: Chāndogya Upaniṣad 8.8.5, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/ChU/8.8.5), 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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