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...

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

अस्मत्तो ब्राह्मणा ये स्युः श्रेयांसः शास्त्रवेदिनः ।
तेषामासनदानेन श्रमापनयनं कुरु ॥ १७५ ॥

asmatto brāhmaṇā ye syuḥ śreyāṃsaḥ śāstravedinaḥ |
teṣāmāsanadānena śramāpanayanaṃ kuru || 175 ||

English translation of verse 1.175:

By the offering of a seat you must remove the fatigue of those Brāhmaṇas who are well-versed in Scripture and who are superior to us.

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