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 1.2
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
यस्येदं सकलामलेन्दुकिरणप्रख्यैर्यशोरश्मिभिर्व्याप्तं
यश्च कृपालुतापरवशश्चक्रे हितं दुःखिनाम् ।
यद्वाणीकुलिशावरुग्णमतयः पेतुर्दिशस्तार्किका
भक्त्या पूज्यतमं प्रणम्य तमहं तद्भाष्यनीतौ यते ॥ २ ॥
yasyedaṃ sakalāmalendukiraṇaprakhyairyaśoraśmibhirvyāptaṃ
yaśca kṛpālutāparavaśaścakre hitaṃ duḥkhinām |
yadvāṇīkuliśāvarugṇamatayaḥ peturdiśastārkikā
bhaktyā pūjyatamaṃ praṇamya tamahaṃ tadbhāṣyanītau yate || 2 ||
English translation of verse 1.2:
Saluting with devotion the most revered teacher by whose rays of glory, similar to those of the impeccable full moon, this world is pervaded, who by his grace has done good to the afflicted caught up in bondage, by whose utterance, similar to the thunder-bolt, the Logicians (and others) being struck ran to different directions, I endeavour to write this explanation on his bhāṣya (on the Taittirīya Upaniṣad).
Notes:
In this verse Sureśvara offers his salutation to his teacher, Śrī Śaṅkara, who has written a commentary on the Taittirīya Upaniṣad.