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 2.716
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
वाक्यार्थज्ञानकाले यः पदार्थ� नै� विद्यत� �
कर्तव्यः कारकापेक्ष� विधेयः � � संशय� � ७१� �
vākyārthajñānakāle ya� padārtho naiva vidyate |
첹ٲⲹ� kārakāpekṣo vidheya� sa na saṃśaya� || 716 ||
English translation of verse 2.716:
That is the object which can be enjoined—that object which, at the time of getting the knowledge of the sentencesense (from the injunctive text relating to a rite) is not at all present, but which is to be done and which seeks the causal factors. There is no doubt about this.
Notes:
This verse explains the scope and work of injunction in the ritual-section of the Veda. It states that 岵, etc., can be enjoined.