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 2.443
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
विषयानुपातिनी या तु ह्यशेषकरणाश्रया ।
लौकिकत्वात्पदार्थस्य दृशिरत्राभिधीयते ॥ ४४३ ॥
viṣayānupātinī yā tu hyaśeṣakaraṇāśrayā |
laukikatvātpadārthasya dṛśiratrābhidhīyate || 443 ||
English translation of verse 2.443:
Knowledge here means the cognition of objects obtained through any of the senses, since objects are known through empirical means of knowledge.
Notes:
The śruti text reads: yada hyevaiṣa etasminnadṛśye'nātmye'nirukte anilayane'bhayaṃ pratiṣṭhām vindate. With a view to explain the meaning of the word adṛśya which occurs in this text, the meaning of dṛśi is first of all explained in this verse. The meaning of adṛśya can be known only if we know the meaning of dṛśya, and the latter can be known only if we know the meaning of dṛśi. The word dṛśi means sense-knowledge, that is, cognition of empirical objects obtained through the visual sense and the like (dṛśiśabdena viṣayaviṣayaṃ cakṣuḥśrotrādijanyaṃ sarvaṃ jñānamucyate).