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 1.181
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तथा शङ्कितदोषेषु यथोक्तमुपपादयेत् ।
आदेशोऽत्र विधिर्ज्ञेय उपदेशः सुताय च ॥ १८१ ॥
tathā śaṅkitadoṣeṣu yathoktamupapādayet |
ādeśo'tra vidhirjñeya upadeśaḥ sutāya ca || 181 ||
English translation of verse 1.181:
In the same way, as to those who are suspected to be guilty of a blameworthy act, what has been stated above must be done. Here ādeśaḥ must be understood as injunction. The advice is to the son and others.
Notes:
The post-instruction given to the students by the preceptor beginning from satyaṃ vada, dharmaṃ cara, etc., is, indeed, an injunction, and so all the duties enjoined here have to be done. The advice or the instruction (upadeśaḥ) with which we are familiar in Itihāsa, etc., (such as the one given by Vyāsa to Śuka) conveys the same idea which has been stated here.