Taittiriya Upanishad Bhashya Vartika
by R. Balasubramanian | 151,292 words | ISBN-10: 8185208115 | ISBN-13: 9788185208114
The English translation of Sureshvara鈥檚 Taittiriya Vartika, which is a commentary on Shankara鈥檚 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 2.404
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
啶膏ぎ啶距え啷囙い啶班啶距い啷�啶ぞ啶ㄠ啶ㄠた啶班啶оぞ啶班啶啶︵え啷嵿い啶啶氞啶い啷� 啷�
啶え啷嵿え啶苦ぐ啷佮啷嵿い啶� 啶むう啶む啶� 啶膏啶ぞ啶︵え啶苦ぐ啷佮啷嵿い啶た啶む啶洁え啷嵿く啶ムぞ 啷� 啷ウ啷� 啷�
sam膩netaraj膩t墨y膩nnirdh膩ryedantayocyate |
yannirukta峁� tadatra sy膩daniruktamito'nyath膩 || 404 ||
English translation of verse 2.404:
That object which can be stated as 鈥渢his鈥� by distinguishing it from things of its own class and also from things of other classes is here referred to by the term nirukta. By anirukta is meant what is different from this.
Notes:
The meaning of the text nirukta峁� c膩nirukta峁� ca is explained in this verse.
Nirukta [niruktam] is the definable, and anirukta [aniruktam] is the undefinable. What can be fully explained as, 鈥淭his is a pct made of clay, having a particular shape, and capable of holding water,鈥� is the definable. That which cannot be stated to be such-and-such is the undefinable.