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Sāvitrī Upaniṣad 1 (Sanskrit Documents numbering)

Canonical source text

कः सविता का सावित्री अग्निरेव सविता पृथिवी सावित्री स यत्राग्निस्तत्पृथिवी यत्र वै पृथिवी तत्राग्निस्ते द्वे योनी तदेकं मिथुनम् ॥

IAST transliteration

kaḥ savitā kā sāvitrī agnir eva savitā pṛthivī sāvitrī sa yatrāgnis tat pṛthivī yatra vai pṛthivī tatrāgnis te dve yonī tad ekaṃ mithunam ||

Close translation

Who is Savitṛ? Who is Sāvitrī? Agni is Savitṛ; Earth is Sāvitrī. Where Agni is, there is Earth; where Earth is, there is Agni. Those two sources are one pair.

Reader-friendly meaning

Complementarity is the method of this Upanishad: pair after pair, one mithuna.

Meenananda editorial explanation

The public Gāyatrī already names Savitṛ. This card adds Sāvitrī as the paired earth of that light.

Sāvitrī Upaniṣad 1, Sanskrit Documents recension (savitri_u.html). Sanskrit: public-domain Devanagari as encoded at Sanskrit Documents (sanskritdocuments.org). Foundation translations: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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English

Who is Savitṛ? Who is Sāvitrī? Agni is Savitṛ; Earth is Sāvitrī. Where Agni is, there is Earth; where Earth is, there is Agni. Those two sources are one pair.

বাংলা

সবিতৃ কে? সাবিত্রী কে? অগ্নিই সবিতৃ; পৃথিবী সাবিত্রী। যেখানে অগ্নি, সেখানে পৃথিবী; যেখানে পৃথিবী, সেখানে অগ্নি। সেই দুই যোনি এক মিথুন।

हिन्दी

सवितृ कौन? सावित्री कौन? अग्नि ही सवितृ हैं; पृथ्वी सावित्री। जहाँ अग्नि, वहाँ पृथ्वी; जहाँ पृथ्वी, वहाँ अग्नि। वे दो योनियाँ एक मिथुन हैं।