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 2.736
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
अस्मद्धेतोर्महांस्तापोऽविद्यासंवीतचेतसाम् ।
जायते मृतिकाले हि हिक्किकावशवर्तिनाम् ॥ ७३६ ॥
asmaddhetormahāṃstāpo'vidyāsaṃvītacetasām |
jāyate mṛtikāle hi hikkikāvaśavartinām || 736 ||
English translation of verse 2.736:
It is from such cause as this that a great remorse arises, indeed, at the time of death in those whose mind is veiled by ignorance and who are overwhelmed by hiccoughs.