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 2.44
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
विशेषणविशेष्यत्वात्सत्यादीन्यत एव च ।
चत्वार्येकविभक्तीनि नीलरक्तोत्पलादिवत् ॥ ४४ ॥
viśeṣaṇaviśeṣyatvātsatyādīnyata eva ca |
catvāryekavibhaktīni nīlaraktotpalādivat || 44 ||
English translation of verse 2.44:
As in the expressions, “blue lily”, “red lily,” and so on, the four words, viz., real, etc., are in the same case, because they are related as attribute and substantive.
Notes:
The Upaniṣad defines Brahman as real (satya [satyam]), knowledge (jñāna [jñānam]), and infinite (ananta [anantam]). Here all the four words are in the same case, referring to one and the same thing. While the words satyam jñānam and anantam are attributes, the word brahma is the substantive.