Aitareya Upanishad

The Aitareya Upanishad is a short prose text from the Aitareya Aranyaka in the Rig Veda. It explains the symbolic meaning of the rituals described in the previous chapters of the Aranyaka, and contains particularly famous aphorisms (maha vakya) like prajnanam brahma - "Brahman is perfect knowledge". Aitareya Upanishad discusses the philosophy of the individual and the self, the theory of reincarnation, and the relationship between individual consciousness and the universal consciousness.

Aitareya 1.2.2

A cow was fetched for them. They said, "for us, this is certainly not enough". A horse was then fetched for them. They said again, "for us, this is certainly not enough".


  • tābhyo

  • gāmānayattā

  • abruvanna

  • vai

  • no'yamalamiti

  • tābhyo'śvamānayattā

  • abruvanna

  • vai

  • no'yamalamiti

Aitareya Upanishad