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 2.182
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अन्नमम्भस्तथा तेजो भुक्तं प्रत्येकशस्त्रिधा ।
त्रिवृत्कृतं तथैकैकं परिणामं प्रपद्यते ॥ १८२ ॥
annamambhastathā tejo bhuktaṃ pratyekaśastridhā |
trivṛtkṛtaṃ tathaikaikaṃ pariṇāmaṃ prapadyate || 182 ||
English translation of verse 2.182:
The solid, watery, and fiery substances eaten (by the mother) are each one of them divided into three portions; and each one of these three portions undergoes transformation in three ways separately.
Notes:
With a view to give an account of the growth of the subtle and gross bodies of the jīva that has got into the womb, it is first of all stated that food and other things eaten by the mother undergo threefold transformation.
The solid food (anna) eaten by the mother becomes threefold—the grossest, subtle, and the subtlest. The Chāndogya (VI, v, 1-3) speaks of these portions as sthaviṣṭho dhātuḥ, madhyamo dhātuḥ, and aṇiṣṭho dhātuḥ. The watery and fiery food when eaten becomes threefold in the same way.