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 1.85
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
ईयसुन्वसितुर्वास्यात्स्याद्वा वसुमतः परः ।
अभीष्टोऽतिशयो यस्मात्सजातीयाद् गुणोन्नतेः ॥ ८५ ॥
īyasunvasiturvāsyātsyādvā vasumataḥ paraḥ |
abhīṣṭo'tiśayo yasmātsajātīyād guṇonnateḥ || 85 ||
English translation of verse 1.85:
The suffix īyasun is used after the word vasitṛ or vasumat. Since it is natural to desire superiority in virtues among those like him (there is the invocation to that effect.)
Notes:
Vasitṛ means one who lives. Vasumat means one who has wealth. As a result of addition of the suffix īyasun to these words we get the sense of superiority among those who live or those who are wealthy.
The addition of the suffix u to the root vas gives vasu which means (1) one who lives by nature an excellent life and also (2) one who wears by nature excellent clothes. (3) The word vasu means wealth. It may also mean by implication a wealthy man As a result of the addition of the suffix īyasun to vasu we get the meaning of superiority in all the three senses mentioned above, viz., superiority among those who lead an excellent life or who wear excellent clothes and who are wealthiest.