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 2.51
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अनेकात्मविशेष्यस्थमागृहीतविशेष्यकम् ।
सजातीयान्निराकर्तृ विशेषणमिहोच्यते ॥ ५१ ॥
anekātmaviśeṣyasthamāgṛhītaviśeṣyakam |
sajātīyānnirākartṛ viśeṣaṇamihocyate || 51 ||
English translation of verse 2.51:
Here, that is said to be an attribute which, abiding in a heterogeneous object (which belongs to a class of many similar objects) and coinhering in the object it qualifies, distinguishes it from others of the same class.
Notes:
The relation that obtains between the definition and the thing defined is different from that which obtains between the attribute and the thing qualified. This calls for an explanation of (1) an attribute (viśeṣaṇa), (2) a substantive (viśeṣya), (3) definition (lakṣaṇa), and (4) the thing defined
An attribute is that which distinguishes an object which it qualifies from others of its own ciass (samānajātīyāt-vyāvartakam viśeṣaṇam).