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 1.84
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
जनेऽसानि यशश्चेति पूर्वस्यैतत्प्रयोजनम् ।
वस्यसोऽहं सकाशाच्च श्रेयान्स्यां गुणतोऽधिकः ।
वसीयसो वस्यस इतीलोपश्छान्दसो भवेत् ॥ ८४ ॥
jane'sāni yaśaśceti pūrvasyaitatprayojanam |
vasyaso'haṃ sakāśācca śreyānsyāṃ guṇato'dhikaḥ |
vasīyaso vasyasa itīlopaśchāndaso bhavet || 84 ||
English translation of verse 1.84:
May I become renowned among men—this is the fruit of the earlier (invocation). May I become superior among the wealthy on account of abundant merits. The word vasīyas has become vasyas by the dropping of the letter ī in the Vedic usage.