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Article: Dharmaskandhah and Brahmasamsthah: a study of Chandogya Upanisad 2.23.1.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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1.1 Chandogya Upanisad 2.23.1 has been singled out for special attention by Indian theologians and exegetes, as well as by modern scholars, because they consider it to be the vedic basis for and the earliest evidence of the central Brahmanical institution of the four asramas. I give here the Sanskrit text together with Hume's English translation,(1) marking each phrase with a Roman numeral to facilitate reference to each:
A.i. There are three branches of duty.
ii. Sacrifice, study of the Vedas, and alms-giving - that is the first.
iii. Austerity, indeed, is the second.
iv. A student of sacred knowledge dwelling in the house of a ...