उपनिषद् · Praśna 1.8
॥
देवनागरी
विश्वरूपं हरिणं जातवेदसं परायणं ज्योतिर् एकं तपन्तम् ।
सहस्ररश्मिः शतधा वर्तमानः प्राणः प्रजानाम् उदयत्य् एष सूर्यः
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
viśvarūpaṃ hariṇaṃ jātavedasaṃ parāyaṇaṃ jyotir ekaṃ tapantam /
sahasraraśmiḥ śatadhā vartamānaḥ prāṇaḥ prajānām udayaty eṣa sūryaḥ
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
विश्वरूपम्viśvarūpamthe all-formed; having the universal form
हरिणम्hariṇamthe golden (hariṇa — 'golden-yellow'); the gold-hued; radiantly golden
जातवेदसम्jātavedasamknower of all that is born (jāta-vedas); who knows everything born; Jātavedas
परायणम्parāyaṇamthe final refuge (para-ayana); the supreme shelter; the last haven
ज्योतिःjyotiḥthe light; the radiance
एकम्ekamone; single
तपन्तम्tapantamgiving heat (from √tap); blazing; warming
सहस्ररश्मिःsahasraraśmiḥthousand-rayed (sahasra-raśmi); with a thousand beams; of a thousand rays
शतधाśatadhāin a hundred [ways] (śatadhā); a hundredfold; in a hundred guises
वर्तमानःvartamānaḥexisting; acting
प्राणःprāṇaḥthe prāṇa; vital force
प्रजानाम्prajānāmof beings; of living beings
उदयतिudayatirises; ascends
एषःeṣaḥthis; he
सूर्यःsūryaḥthe sun; Sūrya
अनुवाद
"Of all forms, golden, knower of all that is born, the final refuge, the one light that gives heat, thousand-rayed, abiding in a hundred [guises] — this sun rises, the prāṇa of all creatures."
संस्करण
a32b5f35f4d0 · प्रकाशित 26 जुल॰ 2026, 8:35:21 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The promised hymn — a portrait of the sun in seven epithets. viśva-rūpam — of all forms (in his light every form stands revealed); hariṇam — golden; jātavedasam — "knower of all that is born" (a title of fire: light was present at every birth); parāyaṇam — "the final refuge": to it lives return as rays return at sunset; jyotir ekam — "the one light": luminaries are many, light is one; tapantam — "blazing": bestowing the heat of tapas upon all that lives; sahasra-raśmiḥ śatadhā vartamānaḥ — "thousand-rayed, working in a hundred [ways]": one power, a thousand deliveries.
prāṇaḥ prajānām udayaty eṣa sūryaḥ — "this sun rises, the prāṇa of creatures": the hymn seals the lesson of the opening verses: looking at the sunrise you see not a heavenly body but the rising of Life itself.
For an attentive ear there is more here: the one light, of all forms, the final refuge of all — epithets through which He shines whose energy prāṇa itself is. The Kaṭha (verse 101) said it outright: "everything shines only after Him, the Shining One." The sun is the greatest of symbols — but a symbol: the garment of the Light, not the Light itself; the Upaniṣad teaches us to honour it — and not to halt at it (a distinction that will prove decisive in the verses on the two paths).