उपनिषद् · Praśna 1.7
॥
देवनागरी
स एष वैश्वानरो विश्वरूपः प्राणो ऽग्निरुदयते ।
तद् एतद् दचाभ्युक्तम्
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
sa eṣa vaiśvānaro viśvarūpaḥ prāṇo 'gnirudayate |
tad etad dacābhyuktam
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
सः एषःsaḥ eṣaḥthis very one; it is he who
वैश्वानरःvaiśvānaraḥVaiśvānara ('belonging to all men' — a name of fire); the All-Human fire; the fire in all beings
विश्वरूपःviśvarūpaḥof all forms (viśva-rūpa); containing every form; many-faced
प्राणःprāṇaḥthe prāṇa; vital force
अग्निःagniḥfire; Agni
उदयतेudayaterises (ud-√i); ascends; comes up
तत् एतत्tat etatthis precisely; concerning this
ऋचा अभ्युक्तम्ṛcā abhyuktamsung in a ṛc; said in a Vedic verse
अनुवाद
"It is he who rises — Vaiśvānara, of all forms, prāṇa, fire. Of this it is said in a Vedic verse."
संस्करण
90b5f1206f54 · प्रकाशित 26 जुल॰ 2026, 8:35:21 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Three names are drawn together in the one rising luminary: vaiśvānaraḥ — "belonging to all men", the fire that lives in each (by that same name the Gītā 15.14 calls the digestive fire: ahaṁ vaiśvānaro bhūtvā — "having become Vaiśvānara, I digest the food in the bodies of breathing things"); viśva-rūpaḥ — "of all forms": every form is his vesture; prāṇo 'gnir udayate — "prāṇa, fire, rises".
The equation "sun = fire = prāṇa" is no poetic licence but an exact seeing of one energy on three storeys: in the sky it is the sun, on the altar and the hearth it is fire, in the breast it is breath. Therefore the Vedic man, tending his fire and greeting the sunrise, was doing one and the same thing: honouring the single life by which he himself lives.
tad etad ṛcābhyuktam — "of this it is said in a ṛc": Pippalāda hands the word over to the hymn. So tradition works: instruction leans upon revelation, the teacher's new word upon the eternal word of the Veda; and the next verse will be that hymn.