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 2.420
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
लोकेऽपि स्वामिना साक्षाद्यत्कृतं कर्म यत्नतः ।
तदेव सुकृतं प्राहुर्न तु भृत्यैस्तथा कृतम् ॥ ४२० ॥
loke'pi svāminā sākṣādyatkṛtaṃ karma yatnataḥ |
tadeva sukṛtaṃ prāhurna tu bhṛtyaistathā kṛtam || 420 ||
English translation of verse 2.420:
Even in common parlance that act alone which is done by the master directly by himself with effort is said to be well-done, but not that which is done likewise by the servants.
Notes:
The second explanation given in the previous verse is justified now in terms of common usage in our day-to-day affairs.