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Prashna Upanishad: Verse 1.9

संवत्सरो वै प्रजापतिस्तस्यायने दक्षिणं चोत्तरं च । तद्ये ह वै तदिष्टापूर्ते कृतमित्युपासते ते चान्द्रमसमेव लोकमभिजयन्ते । त एव पुनरावर्तन्ते तस्मादेत ऋषयः प्रजाकामा दक्षिणं प्रतिपद्यन्ते । एष ह वै रयिर्यः पितृयाणः ॥९॥

संवत्सरः । वै । प्रजापतिः । तस्य । अयने । दक्षिणम् । च । उत्तरम् । च । तत् । ये । ह । वै । तत् । इष्टापूर्ते । कृतम् । इति । उपासते । ते । चान्द्रमसम् । एव । लोकम् । अभिजयन्ते । ते । एव । पुनः । आवर्तन्ते । तस्मात् । एते । ऋषयः । प्रजाकामाः । दक्षिणम् । प्रतिपद्यन्ते । एषः । ह । वै । रयिः । यः । पितृयाणः ॥

Recitation with translationPrashna Upanishad 1.9

saṃvatsaro vai prajāpatis tasyāyane dakṣiṇaṃ cottaraṃ ca | tad ye ha vai tad iṣṭāpūrte kṛtam ity upāsate te cāndramasam eva lokam abhijayante | ta eva punar āvartante tasmād eta ṛṣayaḥ prajākāmā dakṣiṇaṃ pratipadyante | eṣa ha vai rayir yaḥ pitṛyāṇaḥ ||9||

El año, en verdad, es Prajāpati; y de él hay dos recorridos: el del sur y el del norte. Quienes veneran eso (Prajāpati/el año) como “el mérito producido por iṣṭa y pūrta” conquistan sólo el mundo lunar; y vuelven de nuevo. Por eso estos ṛṣi, deseosos de descendencia, toman el curso del sur. Esto, ciertamente, es Rayi: el camino de los Padres.

The year indeed is Prajāpati; of it the two courses are the southern and the northern. Those who worship that (Prajāpati/year) as ‘the merit produced by iṣṭa and pūrta’—they conquer only the lunar world; and they return again. Therefore these seers, desiring progeny, take to the southern (course). This indeed is Rayi, namely the path of the Fathers.

Karma/upāsanā and saṃsāra; pitṛyāṇa vs devayāṇa; rayi (matter/food/wealth) as the lunar-ancestral trajectoryMahavakya: No direct mahāvākya; contrasts karma-based attainments (finite, return) with the higher pursuit that later culminates in liberating knowledge aligned with mahāvākya realization.AtharvaAtharvaveda (Paippalāda-śākhā) ShakhaChandas: Prose

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