Uddalaka Aruni
Uddālaka's debates in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa
Traditional attribution
Uddālaka's debates in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa
शतपथब्राह्मण XI.4.1, XI.5.3 (Uddālaka Āruṇi)
In XI.4.1 Uddālaka travels through the northern country as an officiant with a gold coin to challenge his colleagues; Svaidāyana Śaunaka wins the disputation with questions about the new- and full-moon sacrifices, and Uddālaka returns to him with firewood in hand to be instructed. In XI.5.3 Śauceya Prācīnayogya questions him about the agnihotra — the cow, the calf, the milk, the fire — and about the expiations when the fires go out, and Uddālaka answers everything.
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Authorship note
Passages of the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, a collective work of the Vājasaneyin school, in which Uddālaka takes part as priest and disputant. There is a parallel of the first in the Gopatha Brāhmaṇa (1.3.6).
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English
Uddalaka Aruni
The Śatapatha-Brāhmaṇa, Part V (Sacred Books of the East 44)
The Conscious LibraryThe Śatapatha-Brāhmaṇa, Part V (Sacred Books of the East 44)
Clarendon Press, 1900
Translation: Julius Eggeling
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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 doctrine of the five fires (pañcāgni-vidyā), received from Pravāhaṇa Jaivali · 650
- The teaching of the universal ātman (vaiśvānara-vidyā), before Aśvapati Kaikeya · 650
- Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad, chapter 1: Āruṇi and Citra Gāṅgyāyani · 500
- Āruṇi Upaniṣad (Āruṇeyī Upaniṣad)
- Āruṇi-śruti (lost text)
Sources
- Eggeling, Julius (trad.). The Śatapatha-Brāhmaṇa, Part V (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 44). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900. XI.4.1 (Uddālaka Āruṇi y Svaidāyana) y XI.5.3 (Śauceya Prācīnayogya y Uddālaka Āruṇi sobre el agnihotra).
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