'How smells?' 'By the nose.' 'How forms?' 'By the eye.' 'How sounds?' 'By the ear.' 'How flavours of food?' 'By the tongue.' 'How actions?' 'By the hands.' 'How pleasures and pain?' 'By the body.' 'How joy, delight, and offspring?' 'By the organ.' 'How journeyings?' 'By the feet.' 'How thoughts, and what is to be known and desired?' 'By knowledge (pragna) alone.'

Brahman says to him: 'Water indeed is this my world , the whole Brahman world, and it is thine.'

Whatever victory, whatever might belongs to Brahman, that victory and that might he obtains who knows this, yea, who knows this .

Footnotes

^271:1 It is difficult to determine whether Kitra's name was Gangyayani or Gargyayani. Professor Weber adopted first Gargyayani (Indische Studien 1, P. 395), afterwards Gangyayani (ibid. II, 395). Professor Cowell adopts Gangyayani, but he tells us that the Telugu MS. reads Gargyayani throughout, and the other MSS. B, C do so occasionally. The commentator explains Gangyayani as the descendant (yuvapatyam) of Gangya. I confess a preference for Gargyayani, because both Ganga and Gangya are names of rare occurrence in ancient Vedic literature, but I admit that for that very reason the transition of Gangyayani into Gargyayani is perhaps more intelligible than that of Gargyayani into Gangyayani.

^271:2 Cf. Kh. Up. V, 11, 2; Brih. Ar. VI, 2, 1.

^271:3 Cf. Kh. Up. V, 3; VI, 1.

^271:4 Brih. Ar. VI, 2, 4.