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 2.170
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
तस्य योनौ निषिक्तस्य निमित्तवशवर्तिनः ।
जायते कललाऽवस्था ततो बुद्बुदरूपिणी ॥ १७० ॥
tasya yonau niṣiktasya nimittavaśavartinaḥ |
jāyate kalalā'vasthā tato budbudarūpiṇī || 170 ||
English translation of verse 2.170:
From the semen poured into the womb and acted on by the (two) causes (viz., previous karma and upāsanā) comes the embryonic state of kalala and thence the budbuda form.