The Bhagavadgîtâ, with the Sanatsugâtîya and the Anugîtâ — SBE Vol. 8 (trans. K. T. Telang, 1882)
The translator’s English as printed (K. T. Telang). The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.
CHAPTER VI.
The Brâhmaṇa said :
On this, too, they relate this ancient story. Learn now of what description is the institution of the ten sacrificial priests?. The ear’, the skin, the two eyes, the tongue, the nose, the two feet, the two hands, speech, the genital organ, and the anus, these, verily, are ten sacrificial priests, O beautiful one! Sound, touch, colour, and taste, smell, words, action, motion, and the discharge of semen, urine, and excrement, these are the ten oblations. The quarters, wind, sun, moon, earth and fire, and Vishṇu also, Indra, Pragâpati, and Mitra, these, O beautiful one! are the ten fires³. The ten organs are the makers of the offering; the offerings are ten, O beautiful one! Objects of sense, verily, are the fuel; and they are offered up into the ten fires. The mind is the ladle⁴; and the wealth is the pure, highest knowledge⁵. (Thus) we have heard, was the universe duly divided⁶. And the mind, which is the instrument of knowledge, requires everything knowable ! (as its offering). The mind is within the body the upholder of the frame, and the knower is the upholder of the body. That? upholder of the body is the Gârhapatya fire; from that another is produced, and the mind which is the Ahavantya; and into this the offering is thrown. Then the lord of speech was produced‘; that (lord of speech) looks up to the mind. First, verily, are words produced; and the mind runs after them.
root corresponding with perfect occurs three times in the original, hence the repetition of perfect above. i]
1 Cf. Taittiriya-brâhmasa, p. 411, and Aranyaka, p. 281.
3 Cf. Brihadâranyaka, p.459. The reading in the printed edition of Bombay is defective here.
3 See p. 337 seq., where all this is more fully explained. And cf. the analogous Buddhistic doctrine stated at Lalita Vistara (Translation by Dr. R. Mitra), p. 11.
4 See Taittiriya-âraṇyaka loc. cit., and cf. Gita, p. 61. ‘The wealth’ probably means the Dakshiṇâ to be given to the priests, which is mentioned at Gita, p. 119.
5 The ‘priests’ here being the senses, the knowledge would accrue to them, as to which cf. Gita, p. 108.
6 See note 3.
CHAPTER VI.
The Brâhmaṇa said:
On this, too, they relate this ancient story. Learn now what kind of institution the ten sacrificial priests are. The ear, the skin, the two eyes, the tongue, the nose, the two feet, the two hands, speech, the genital organ, and the anus — these, truly, are the ten sacrificial priests, O beautiful one! Sound, touch, colour, and taste, smell, words, action, motion, and the discharge of semen, urine, and excrement — these are the ten oblations. The quarters, wind, sun, moon, earth and fire, and Vishṇu also, Indra, Prajâpati, and Mitra — these, O beautiful one! are the ten fires³. The ten organs are the makers of the offering; the offerings are ten, O beautiful one! Objects of sense, truly, are the fuel, and they are offered up into the ten fires. The mind is the ladle⁴; and the wealth is the pure, highest knowledge⁵. Such, we have heard, was the due division of the universe⁶. And the mind, which is the instrument of knowledge, requires everything knowable! as its offering. The mind is within the body the upholder of the frame, and the knower is the upholder of the body. That upholder of the body is the Gârhapatya fire; from that another is produced, and the mind which is the Ahavantya; and into this the offering is thrown. Then the lord of speech was produced; that lord of speech looks up to the mind. Words, truly, are produced first, and the mind runs after them.
root corresponding with perfect occurs three times in the original, hence the repetition of perfect above. i]
1 Cf. Taittiriya-brâhmasa, p. 411, and Aranyaka, p. 281.
3 Cf. Brihadâranyaka, p.459. The reading in the Bombay printed edition is defective here.
3 See p. 337 seq., where all this is more fully explained. And cf. the analogous Buddhistic doctrine stated at Lalita Vistara (Translation by Dr. R. Mitra), p. 11.
4 See Taittiriya-âraṇyaka loc. cit., and cf. Gita, p. 61. 'The wealth' probably means the Dakshiṇâ to be given to the priests, which is mentioned at Gita, p. 119.
5 The 'priests' here being the senses, the knowledge would accrue to them, as to which cf. Gita, p. 108.
6 See note 3.