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 1.139
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अनुज्ञानुकृतिस्तद्वत्सर्वत्रोमिति कीर्त्यते ।
ओश्रावयेत्यनुज्ञाता यत आश्रावयन्ति च ॥ १३९ ॥
anujñānukṛtistadvatsarvatromiti kīrtyate |
ośrāvayetyanujñātā yata āśrāvayanti ca || 139 ||
English translation of verse 1.139:
The word anukṛtiḥ means compliance. In this sense Om is used everywhere. Since by giving the direction, “O Agnīdhra, make (the gods) hear,” they make them recite, (Om is compliance).
Notes:
The expression O śrāvaya contains the direction. The priests who perform the acts enjoined in the Yajur-veda give the direction to the Agnīdhra: “O Agnīdhra. make it known to the gods that an oblation is ready to be offered.” By giving this direction, they make them recite the mantra.