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 2.211
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
ह्रियते मृत्युना जन्तुः परिष्वक्तोऽपि बान्धवैः ।
सागरान्तर्जलगतो गरुडेनेव पन्नगः ॥ २११ ॥
hriyate mṛtyunā jantuḥ pariṣvakto'pi bāndhavaiḥ |
sāgarāntarjalagato garuḍeneva pannagaḥ || 211 ||
English translation of verse 2.211:
Though surrounded by the relatives, the creature is snatched away by death in the same way as a serpent which has gone underneath the ocean is captured by Garuḍa, the enemy of serpents.