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 1.88-89
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
द्रुतमापो यथा यन्ति निम्नेन मकरालयम् ।
तथैवायन्तु मां सर्वे समन्ताद् ब्रह्मचारिणः ॥ ८८ ॥
यस्मिन्नहानि जीर्यन्ते सोऽब्दोऽहर्जर उच्यते ।
अहर्जरे यथा मासा यन्ति सम्वत्सरात्मनि ॥ ८९ ॥
drutamāpo yathā yanti nimnena makarālayam |
tathaivāyantu māṃ sarve samantād brahmacāriṇaḥ || 88 ||
yasminnahāni jīryante so'bdo'harjara ucyate |
aharjare yathā māsā yanti samvatsarātmani || 89 ||
English translation of verse 1.88-89:
Just as water flows quickly downwards into the ocean, just as months run into the year, so also may all celebate students come to me from all directions. The year is called aharjara, because the days are consumed in it.