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 2.404
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
समानेतरजातीयान्निर्धार्येदन्तयोच्यते ।
यन्निरुक्तं तदत्र स्यादनिरुक्तमितोऽन्यथा ॥ ४०४ ॥
samānetarajātīyānnirdhāryedantayocyate |
yanniruktaṃ tadatra syādaniruktamito'nyathā || 404 ||
English translation of verse 2.404:
That object which can be stated as “this” by distinguishing it from things of its own class and also from things of other classes is here referred to by the term nirukta. By anirukta is meant what is different from this.
Notes:
The meaning of the text niruktaṃ cāniruktaṃ ca is explained in this verse.
Nirukta [niruktam] is the definable, and anirukta [aniruktam] is the undefinable. What can be fully explained as, “This is a pct made of clay, having a particular shape, and capable of holding water,” is the definable. That which cannot be stated to be such-and-such is the undefinable.