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 2.52
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
सामान्येतरसंयुक्तमनेकगुणसंयुतम् ।
सम्भव्यसम्भविगुणं विशेष्यं तत्प्रचक्षते ॥ ५२ ॥
sāmānyetarasaṃyuktamanekaguṇasaṃyutam |
sambhavyasambhaviguṇaṃ viśeṣyaṃ tatpracakṣate || 52 ||
English translation of verse 2.52:
A substantive is said to be that which is in association with the universal and other features, and which possesses many qualities which are present in some and absent in others.
Notes:
Every object has many specific qualities (viśeṣa-dharmāḥ) in addition to the universal or the class characteristic (sāmānya-dharma) Take the case of a lily which is blue. It is characterized by liliness (utpalatva [utpalatvam]) which it has in common with other lilies. It has also certain specific or particular qualities such as the blue colour, which distinguishes it from other lilies which are red, white, and so on. So a specific quality, e.g., the blue colour of a lily, is present in some, but absent in others. If every lily were characterized by the blue colour, the latter would cease to be a specific quality, and the object also would cease to be a substantive in the absence of a specific quality to qualify it. So a substantive (viśeṣya) is that which is distinguished only from other objects of its own class (sajātīyamātrāt-vyāvartitaṃ viśeṣyaṃ).