[Advaita-l] Looking for the source of a passage

V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
Mon May 11 08:21:50 EDT 2020


Thanks Venkat ji.  It is nice that we are getting reference to this passage
which is not to be found in all the editions/translations of the Bhashyam
that I searched in.

regards
subbu

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 5:06 PM Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com> wrote:

> Namaste Subbuji,
> I was going to respond saying that it was from the paippalAda samhitA when
> I saw your email. Thanks for the complete reference and the link to the
> entire sUkta - it is a beautiful description of vishvarUpa darshana /
> sarvAtma bhAva.
>
>
> On Mon, 11 May 2020, 11:28 V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:29 AM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > In the Brahma sutra bhashya 2.3.43, Shankara has cited a passage as from
>> > the Atharva veda:
>> >
>> > तथा ह्येके शाखिनो दाशकितवादिभावं ब्रह्मण आमनन्त्याथर्वणिका ब्रह्मसूक्ते
>>>> > ‘ ब्रह्म दाशा ब्रह्म दासा ब्रह्मैवेमे कितवाः’ इत्यादिना ;
>> >
>>
>> A member in the BVP kindly identified the passage:
>>
>> //Namaste,
>>
>> These words are from Athava Veda Paippalaada Samhitaa 8.9.11.
>> "ब्रह्म दाशा ब्रह्म दासा ब्रह्मेमे कितवा उत ।
>> स्त्रीपुंसौ ब्रह्मणो जातौ स्त्रियो ब्रह्म उत वावन ।।"
>>
>> Please see the following links:
>> https://archive.org/details/20190720_20190720_0950/page/n278/mode/1up
>> https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.345311/page/n600/mode/1up
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sushil  //
>>
>> The first link is for the pdf of the Atharva Paippalada samhita.
>>
>> By reading the entire sukta, image of which is here:
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bvparishat/CAKk0Te3j0kwDsQsvbqmVe5hDMa1a5GBxbc3Y%3DyDyyEYRS3zVmw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer
>>   one can recall the famous Bh. Gita verse 'brahmarpanam brahma havih...'
>> where the idea 'everything is Brahman' is taught.
>>
>> warm regards
>> subbu
>>
>> It also reminds one of the famous third anuvAka of the Rudram:
> नमः ककुभाय निषङ्गिणे स्तेनानां पतये नमो नमो निषङ्गिण इषुधिमते तस्कराणां
> पतये नमो नमो वञ्चते परिवञ्चते स्तायूनां पतये नमो नमो निचेरवे
> परिचरायारण्यानां पतये नमो नमः सृकाविभ्यो जिघासद्भ्यो मुष्णतां पतये नमो नमोऽसिमद्भ्यो
> नक्तं चरद्भ्यः प्रकृन्तानां पतये नमो नमः
>
> Regards,
> Venkatraghavan
>
> >
>> > No editor has cited the source of the passage, as far as I could search.
>> >
>> > Could anyone help locating the passage?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > subbu
>> >
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