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 2.212
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
हा कान्ते हा धनं पुत्र क्रन्दमानः सुदारुणम् ।
मण्डूक इव सर्पेण गीर्यते मृत्युना नरः ॥ २१२ ॥
hā kānte hā dhanaṃ putra krandamānaḥ sudāruṇam |
maṇḍūka iva sarpeṇa gīryate mṛtyunā naraḥ || 212 ||
English translation of verse 2.212:
Even as the man is weeping frightfully saying: “Ah, my dear wife! ah, my wealth! ah, my son!” he is swallowed by death in the same way as a frog is swallowed by a serpent.