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 2.206-209
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
कासाधोवायुमुरजा सितश्मश्रुकचाम्बरा ।
श्वासोत्थस्वनवंशा च जाठरध्वनिगेयिका ॥ २०६ ॥
वलीपलितवच्चर्मवरकञ्चुकधारिणी ।
दण्डतृतीयपादेयं प्रस्खलन्ती मुहुर्मुहुः ॥ २०७ ॥
अग्निपाकिकरुक्माढ्या सूक्ष्मत्वक्पटसंवृता ।
गुल्फजान्वस्थिसङ्घर्षचलन्नूपुरघोषिणी ॥ २०८ ॥
प्रज्ञां मेधां धृतिं शौर्यं यूनां जग्ध्वा बलं तथा ।
क्रुतार्थेव प्रहर्षेण जरायोषित्प्रनृत्यति ॥ २०९ ॥
kāsādhovāyumurajā sitaśmaśrukacāmbarā |
śvāsotthasvanavaṃśā ca jāṭharadhvanigeyikā || 206 ||
valīpalitavaccarmavarakañcukadhāriṇī |
daṇḍatṛtīyapādeyaṃ praskhalantī muhurmuhuḥ || 207 ||
agnipākikarukmāḍhyā sūkṣmatvakpaṭasaṃvṛtā |
gulphajānvasthisaṅgharṣacalannūpuraghoṣiṇī || 208 ||
prajñāṃ medhāṃ dhṛtiṃ śauryaṃ yūnāṃ jagdhvā balaṃ tathā |
krutārtheva praharṣeṇa jarāyoṣitpranṛtyati || 209 ||
English translation of verse 2.206-209:
Having consumed understanding, memory, courage, valour, and the strength of youth, this damsel of old age feels as if she has achieved her goal and dances with joy to the drum of cough and flatulency, to the flute of the sonorous breath, to the song of the abdominal sound, with the garment of white beard and hair, wearing the best blouse of the wrinkeld and grey-haired skin, having a third leg as it were in the staff, falling down again and again, with the bright gold-ornaments of projecting knots of flesh, covered by the cloth of the thin skin, and with the twinklings of moving anklets due to the rubbing of the ankle and knee bones.