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 2.53
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
विशेष्यान्तरशेषं यस्त्वविशेष्यान्यान्यबुद्धिकृत् ।
परिकल्पितसम्बन्धं लक्षणं भावलक्षणम् ॥ ५३ ॥
viśeṣyāntaraśeṣaṃ yastvaviśeṣyānyānyabuddhikṛt |
parikalpitasambandhaṃ lakṣaṇaṃ bhāvalakṣaṇam || 53 ||
English translation of verse 2.53:
A definition of an object is that which isolates all other things from the thing defined, i.e., which causes the differentiating knowledge in respect of the defined, and which is related to the defined (through identity).
Notes:
A definition (lakṣaṇa) distinguishes the thing defined from everything else, from the objects of its own and other classes (sajātīyādvijātīyācca sarvasmādvyāvartakaṃ lakṣaṇam).