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 2.366
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
प्लुतिश्चात्र विचारार्था विचार्यं वस्त्विदं यतः ।
एतेषां खलु चोद्यानामुत्तरार्थोत्तरा श्रुतिः ॥ ३६६ ॥
plutiścātra vicārārthā vicāryaṃ vastvidaṃ yataḥ |
eteṣāṃ khalu codyānāmuttarārthottarā śrutiḥ || 366 ||
English translation of verse 2.366:
The extended pronunciation here is to show that it is what is to be inquired into, because this subject is worthy of investigation. The subsequent śruti texts are, indeed, by way of answer to these questions.
Notes:
Pluti means prolation, protracted pronunciation of a vowel. There is the sign indicating extended pronunciation at the end of the text kaścana gacchati, as also at the end of the text kaścitsamaśnutā.