Traditional attribution
The doctrine of the five fires (pañcāgni-vidyā), received from Pravāhaṇa Jaivali
पञ्चाग्निविद्या (Chāndogya 5.3–10; Bṛhadāraṇyaka 6.2)
To answer the five questions the king had put to Śvetaketu, Pravāhaṇa teaches that the other world, the rain cloud, the earth, man and woman are five fires in which what becomes a new human being is successively offered, and describes the two paths of the dead: that of the gods, from which there is no return, and that of the ancestors, which leads back to earth. It is one of the first expositions of rebirth in Indian literature.
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Authorship note
A teaching the text attributes to King Pravāhaṇa Jaivali, which Uddālaka (here called Gautama) receives as a pupil; it is included because its transmission passes through him.
Editions and translations
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English
The Early Upaniṣads: Annotated Text and Translation
Oxford University Press, 1998
Translation: Patrick Olivelle
ISBN 9780195124354
Other works by Uddalaka Aruni
- The teaching to Śvetaketu (Chāndogya Upaniṣad, book VI) · 650
- Chāndogya Upaniṣad (passages of Uddālaka Āruṇi) · 650
- The question of the thread and the inner controller (Bṛhadāraṇyaka 3.7) · 650
- The teaching of the universal ātman (vaiśvānara-vidyā), before Aśvapati Kaikeya · 650
- Uddālaka's debates in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa · 700
- Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad, chapter 1: Āruṇi and Citra Gāṅgyāyani · 500
- Āruṇi Upaniṣad (Āruṇeyī Upaniṣad)
- Āruṇi-śruti (lost text)
Sources
- Olivelle, Patrick (ed. y trad.). The Early Upaniṣads: Annotated Text and Translation. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Chāndogya 5.3–5.24 y 6; Bṛhadāraṇyaka 3.7, 6.2, 6.3.7 y 6.5; Kauṣītaki 1.1.
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