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Prashna Upanishad: Verse 2.1

अथ हैनं भार्गवो वैदर्भिः पप्रच्छ । भगवन् कत्येव देवाः प्रज्ञां दिधारयन्ते कतर एतत् प्रकाशयन्ते कः पुनरेषां वरिष्ठ इति ॥१॥

अथ । ह । एनम् । भार्गवः । वैदर्भिः । पप्रच्छ । भगवन् । कति । एव । देवाः । प्रज्ञाम् । दिधारयन्ते । कतरे । एतत् । प्रकाशयन्ते । कः । पुनर् । एषाम् । वरिष्ठः । इति ॥

Recitation with translationPrashna Upanishad 2.1

atha hainam bhārgavo vaidarbhiḥ papraccha | bhagavan katyeva devāḥ prajñāṃ didhārayante kataraitat prakāśayante kaḥ punareṣāṃ variṣṭha iti ॥

అప్పుడు భార్గవ వైదర్భి అతనిని అడిగెను — ఓ భగవన్, ఎంతమంది దేవతలు ప్రాణిని ధరించుచున్నారు? ఎవరు దీనిని ప్రకటించుచున్నారు? మరియు వారిలో ఎవరు శ్రేష్ఠుడు?

Then Bhargava Vaidarbhi asked him: 'Bhagavan, how many deities uphold the creature? Which ones manifest this? And who among them is the foremost?'

Prajna (consciousness/creature) upheld by devatas — the hierarchy of divine powers sustaining lifeMahavakya: Sets up the teaching on Prana as the supreme deity, which relates to 'Ayam Atma Brahma' — Prana being the most direct manifestation of Atman in the embodied stateAtharva VedaPippalada Shakha ShakhaChandas: Prose (Vedic prose — Aranyak style)

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