Taittiriya Upanishad Bhashya Vartika
by R. Balasubramanian | 151,292 words | ISBN-10: 8185208115 | ISBN-13: 9788185208114
The English translation of Sureshvara’s Taittiriya Vartika, which is a commentary on Shankara’s Bhashya on the Taittiriya Upanishad. Taittiriya Vartika contains a further explanation of the words of Shankara-Acharya, the famous commentator who wrote many texts belonging to Advaita-Vedanta. Sureshvaracharya was his direct disciple and lived in the 9...
Verse 1.167
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यथोपलब्धं यद्वाक्यं हिंसाकल्कविवर्जितम् ।
सर्वधर्मविदः प्राज्ञास्तत्सत्यं प्रतिजानते ॥ १६७ ॥
yathopalabdhaṃ yadvākyaṃ hiṃsākalkavivarjitam |
sarvadharmavidaḥ prājñāstatsatyaṃ pratijānate || 167 ||
English translation of verse 1.167:
The wise who know the entire dharma lay down that truth-speaking consists in uttering a sentence as it is known, without a motive to do injury and without hypocrisy.