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 2.203
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
महापरिभवस्थानं जरां प्राप्याथ दुःखितः ।
श्लेष्मणा पिहितोरस्को जग्धमन्नं न जीर्यति ॥ २०३ ॥
mahāparibhavasthānaṃ jarāṃ prāpyātha duḥkhitaḥ |
śleṣmaṇā pihitorasko jagdhamannaṃ na jīryati || 203 ||
English translation of verse 2.203:
Then, on attaining old age which is a state of great disgrace, he becomes miserable. With the chest covered by phlegm, he does not digest the food eaten by him.
Notes:
The suffering of old age (jarā-duḥkha [duḥkham]) is described in verses (203) to (209).