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 2.260
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
सर्वेषां जाठराग्न्याख्यं वत्सं चोष्यादिभिः स्तनैः ।
अन्नं गौर्धयते यस्मात्सर्वौषधमतो भवेत् ॥ २६० ॥
sarveṣāṃ jāṭharāgnyākhyaṃ vatsaṃ coṣyādibhiḥ stanaiḥ |
annaṃ gaurdhayate yasmātsarvauṣadhamato bhavet || 260 ||
English translation of verse 2.260:
Since the cow of food satisfies the calf of the digestive fire of all beings through the (four) udders of consuming food by sucking, etc., it is a medicine for all.
Notes:
Food is consumed in four ways—by sucking, by mastication, by swallowing, and by licking.