^308:6 So far the pranava or Om has been explained; now follows the explanation of the Vyahritis; cf. VI, 2. Vyahriti is derived from vyahar, and means an utterance.

^308:7 Cf. VI, 5.

^309:1 M. reads visvataskakshur.

^309:2 Pragapati, according to the commentator, is identified with Satya, the true, because sat means the three worlds, and these (bhuh, bhuvah, svar) are said to be his body. Hence probably the insertion of Satyam before Pragapati at the beginning of the paragraph. Then he argues, as the eye has been called satya, and as the eye is Aditya, therefore Pragapati also, being Satya, is Aditya, the sun. And again, if the sun is worshipped (by the vyahritis) then, like the sun, the eye of all, Pragapati also, the self of all, is worshipped.

^309:3 Eshopasita is impossible. We must either read, with the commentator, etam upasita, or with M. eshopasiteti.

^309:4 He now proceeds to explain the worship of the Savitri verse, which had been mentioned in VI, 2, after the Om and the Vyahritis, as the third mode of worshipping Prana (breath) and Aditya (sun), these being two correlative embodiments of the Self. The Savitri is found in Rig-veda III, 6 2, 10, but it is here explained in a purely philosophical sense. See also Brih. Up. VI, 3, 6.

^310:1 M. reads tarake 'kshni.

^310:2 Surya is considered as the daily performer of the Pratahsavana, &c., the sacrifice at which Soma is squeezed out as an offering.

^310:3 M. reads pavamanat pavamanah.

^310:4 M. reads amritakhyas ketakhyas keta.

^310:5 M. reads ganta srishta.

^311:1 M. reads karyakaranakarmavinirmuktam.

^311:2 Nirupakhyam, rightly translated by Cowell by 'without a predicate,' and rendered by the commentator by apramaya, i.e. not to be measured, not to be classed, i.e. without a predicate.

^311:3 I have translated this in accordance with a well-known passage, quoted by the commentator from the Brihadaranyaka, rather than in accordance with his own interpretation.

^311:4 M. leaves out vidhata.

^311:5 Instead of the peculiar Maitrayani reading, svan sarirad, AI. reads svas kharirad.

^311:6 The oneness of the Sun and the Breath is proclaimed in the following verse of the Prasna Upanishad I, 8.

^312:1 Here ends the M. manuscript, with the following title: iti sriyagussakhayam Maitrayaniyabrahmanopanishadi shashthah prapathakah. Samapta.

^312:2 In the following paragraphs the taking of food is represented as a sacrifice offered by the Self to the Self (atmayaganarupam bhoganam, p. 106, l. 13).

^312:3 Several words have been inserted in this verse, spoiling the metre.

^312:4 See Khand. Up. V, 2.

^313:1 See before, III, 3.

^313:2 This is very doubtful, in fact, unintelligible. The commentator says, asya bhutatmanah karta pradhanah purvoktah, so 'pi bhogya ity arthah.