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 2.258
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
भूतेभ्यः पूर्वनिष्पत्तेर्ज्येष्ठमन्नं विराड् भवेत् ।
स वै शरीरी प्रथमस्तथा पौराणिकी स्मृतिः ॥ २५८ ॥
bhūtebhyaḥ pūrvaniṣpatterjyeṣṭhamannaṃ virāḍ bhavet |
sa vai śarīrī prathamastathā paurāṇikī smṛtiḥ || 258 ||
English translation of verse 2.258:
Food which is the eldest is the Virāj, since it was the first to evolve before all beings. Hence, the statement of the Purāṇa, “He is, indeed, the first embodied one.”