उपनिषद् · Kaṭha 4.9
॥
देवनागरी
यतश् चोदेति सूर्यो अस्तं यत्र च गच्छति ।
तं देवाः सर्वे अर्पितास् तद् उ नात्येति कश्चन ॥
एतद् वै तत्
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
yataś codeti sūryo astaṃ yatra ca gacchati /
taṃ devāḥ sarve arpitās tad u nātyeti kaścana //
etad vai tat
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
यतःyataḥwhence; from whom
चcaand; as well as
उदेतिudetirises (ud-√i); ascends; comes up
सूर्यःsūryaḥthe sun; Sūrya
अस्तम्astamto its setting (asta — 'the going down'); toward the setting; to rest
यत्रyatrainto which; in whom
चcaand; as well as
गच्छतिgacchatigoes; goes
तम्tamin Him; to Him
देवाःdevāḥthe gods; the shining powers
सर्वेsarveall; entirely
अर्पिताःarpitāḥare fixed (arpita — 'set in'); are fastened [in Him]; are inserted
तत्tatthat; it
उusurely; indeed
नnanot; no
अत्येतिatyetihe oversteps (ati-√i — 'to go beyond'); surpasses; he passes beyond
कश्चनkaścanaanyone; anything
एतत्etatthis; he
वैvaiverily; indeed
तत्tatthat; That
अनुवाद
Whence the sun rises and whither it goes to its setting — in That all the gods are fixed, and no one passes beyond It. This, truly, is That.
संस्करण
08fd00fa6c18 · प्रकाशित 26 जुल॰ 2026, 9:13:03 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
From the heart and the hearth to the vault of the sky. yataś codeti sūryo 'staṁ yatra ca gacchati — "whence the sun rises and whither it sets": the very axis of the world, the most dependable of all motions — sunrise and sunset — has its source and its harbour in That. taṁ devāḥ sarve 'rpitāḥ — "in Him all the gods are fixed" (arpita — "set in, fastened", as spokes in a hub): the powers of light are not independent — they are inserted into Him and held by Him.
tad u nātyeti kaścana — "and no one oversteps Him": neither a god, nor time, nor law. The formula will return in verse 94 and in the tree of vallī 6 — the Upaniṣad loves to repeat it like a seal: the world has an absolute horizon, and it is not a wall but He himself; everything moves within Him, nothing past Him.
So the circle of the four "this is That" (77–80) is completed: the First-born in the heart, the Boundless with prāṇa, the fire in the sticks, the sun in the sky. The reader has been shown one and the same mystery through cosmogony, life, rite and luminary — so that no cast of mind should be left without its own door. Next the vallī will say that to see these doors as different is to die from death to death.