Upanishads · Chāndogya 2,14.1
॥
Devanāgarī
उद्यन् हिङ्कारः उदितः प्रस्तावः मध्यंदिनः उद्गीथः अपराह्णः प्रतिहारः अस्तम् यन् निधनम् एतत् बृहत् आदित्ये प्रोतम्
Transliteration (IAST)
udyan hiṅkāraḥ uditaḥ prastāvaḥ madhyaṃdinaḥ udgīthaḥ aparāhṇaḥ pratihāraḥ astam yan nidhanam etat bṛhat āditye protam
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
उद्यन्udyanthe rising (ud-√i); the ascending; the mounting
हिङ्कारःhiṅkāraḥhiṅkāra; the opening call hiṅ
उदितःuditaḥthe risen (udita); the ascended; the up-risen
प्रस्तावःprastāvaḥprastāva; the opening part of the sāman
मध्यंदिनःmadhyaṃdinaḥmidday; the middle of the day
उद्गीथःudgīthaḥudgītha; the exalted chant
अपराह्णःaparāhṇaḥthe afternoon; the latter half of the day
प्रतिहारःpratihāraḥpratihāra; the responding part
अस्तम्astamtoward the setting; to its vanishing
यन्yanthe going; that which moves
निधनम्nidhanamnidhana; the conclusion; the dissolution
एतत्etatthis; all this
बृहत्bṛhatthe bṛhat ('the Great' — the royal sāman); the bṛhat chant; the bṛhat sāman
आदित्येādityein the sun; when the sun
प्रोतम्protamcast; laid
Translation
The rising [sun] is the hiṅkāra; the risen, the prastāva; midday, the udgītha; the afternoon, the pratihāra; the setting, the nidhana. This bṛhat is woven into the sun.
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The fourth sāman — the bṛhat ("the Great", the second of the two royal melodies, the mate of the rathantara!) — is woven into the sun: the sunrise is the striking-up, the morning the setting-forth, noon the lifting-up, the decline the taking-up, the sunset the cadence: the arc of the day is five beats of the Great sāman (a compressed version of the sevenfold day of 2.9).
The pair of great melodies has covered a pair of elements: the rathantara in fire (earthly light), the bṛhat in the sun (heavenly light): the two chief melodies of the Sāma-veda prove to be the world's two fires. A singer who knows this lives between hearth and sun as between two staves of one score.