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 3.90-91
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तैत्तिरीयकसारस्य वार्तिकामृतामुत्तमम् ।
मस्करीन्द्रप्रणीतस्य भाष्यस्यैतद्विवेचनम् ॥ ९० ॥
मुमुक्षुसार्थवाहस्य भवनामभृतो यतेः ।
शिष्यश्चकार तद्भक्त्या सुरेशाख्यो महार्थवित् ॥ ९१ ॥
taittirīyakasārasya vārtikāmṛtāmuttamam |
maskarīndrapraṇītasya bhāṣyasyaitadvivecanam || 90 ||
mumukṣusārthavāhasya bhavanāmabhṛto yateḥ |
śiṣyaścakāra tadbhaktyā sureśākhyo mahārthavit || 91 ||
English translation of verse 3.90-91:
This nectar of the Vārtika, the best discriminative study of the Bhāṣya on the Upaniṣad, which is the essence of the Taittirīyaka-śākhā, composed by the foremost among the sannyāsins, was written by Sureśvara, the knower of the great truth, disciple of the Sannyāsin who bears the name of Śiva, and who is the leader of the group of the spiritual aspirants, as a mark of devotion to him.
Notes:
Here ends Sureśvara’s Vārtika on Śrī Śaṅkara’s Bhāṣya on the Taittirīyopaniṣad. Sureśvara has written this verse commentary as a mark of devotion to his teacher, Śrī Śaṅkara.