Kundika Upanishad 0: Verse 0

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

ब्रह्मचर्याश्रमे क्षीणे गुरुशुश्रूषणे रतः । वेदानधीत्यानुज्ञात उच्यते गुरुणाश्रमी ॥ दारमाहृत्य सदृशमग्निमाधाय शक्तितः । ब्राह्मीमिष्टिं यजेत्तासामहोरात्रेण निर्वपेत् ॥ १-२ ॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

ब्रह्मचर्य-आश्रमे । क्षीणे । गुरु-शुश्रूषणे । रतः । वेदान् । अधीत्य । अनुज्ञातः । उच्यते । गुरुणा । आश्रमी ॥ दारम् । आहृत्य । सदृशम् । अग्निम् । आधाय । शक्तितः । ब्राह्मीम् । इष्टिम् । यजेत् । तासाम् । अहोरात्रेण । निर्वपेत् ॥

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IAST Transliteration

brahmacaryāśrame kṣīṇe guruśuśrūṣaṇe rataḥ | vedān adhītyānujñāta ucyate guruṇāśramī || dāram āhṛtya sadṛśam agnim ādhāya śaktitaḥ | brāhmīm iṣṭiṁ yajet tāsām ahorātreṇa nirvapet || 1–2 ||

Translation

Wenn die Stufe des Brahmacarya vollendet ist, der Schüler dem Dienst am Lehrer hingegeben und die Veden studiert hat, wird derjenige, dem die Erlaubnis erteilt wurde, vom Guru als āśramī bezeichnet, geeignet, in die nächste Lebensordnung einzutreten. Nachdem er eine Gattin heimgeführt und nach seiner Kraft das angemessene heilige Feuer errichtet hat, soll er die Brāhmī-iṣṭi darbringen; und aus diesen Opfergaben soll er die Oblation innerhalb eines Tages und einer Nacht vollziehen.

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Academic Translation

When the stage of studentship is completed, being devoted to service to the teacher, and having studied the Vedas, one who has been granted permission is declared by the teacher to be an āśramī (fit to enter the next stage). Having brought a wife, and having established the appropriate sacred fire according to one’s capacity, he should perform the Brāhmī iṣṭi (a Vedic offering); of those offerings he should make the oblation within a day and a night.

Verse Context

• Dharma (āśrama-dharma) as preparatory discipline for mokṣa; yajña as inner purification
• Mahavakya: Indirect: establishes adhikāritva (eligibility) for later mahāvākya-inquiry (e.g., ‘ayam ātmā brahma’).
• Atharva
• Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (śloka)