--- In [email protected], cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > XIII 13 (12?) > > > > jñeyam yat tat pravakSyaami > > yaj jñaatvaa'mRtam ashnute > > anaadimat paraM brahma > > *na sat tan naasad ucyate* (na; sat; tat; na; asat; ucyate) > > > > Ramanand Prasad's translation: > > > > I shall fully describe the object of knowledge, knowing which one > > attains immortality. The beginningless Supreme Brahman is said to > be > > neither Sat nor Asat. (See also 9.19) (13.12) > > > > Svami Prabhupaada's translation (somewhat biased, IMO): > > > > I shall now explain the knowable, knowing which you will taste the > > eternal. This is beginningless, and it is subordinate to Me. It is > > called Brahman, the spirit, and it lies beyond the cause and effect > > of this material world. > > > > > > Rgveda X 129, 1 (first line) > > > > naasadaasinno sadaasiittadaaniim > > (without sandhi: > > na; asat; aasiit; na_u; sat; aasiit; tadaaniim) > > > > A.A.Macdonell's translation: > > > > There was not the non-existent > > nor the existent then.("before" tha Big Bang thang?) > > > > If anyone's interested I might try to explain > > why Svami's translation is IMO "somewhat biased". > > The third line transliterated exactly as it is > as to spaces between words: > > anaadimatparaM brahma > > As youse can see above, A.C. transliterates the line > like this: > > anaadimat paraM brahma > > That's in line with most translations (e.g. "The beginningless > Supreme Brahman"). > > But in the vocabulary below the translation, A.C. has it > like this: > > anaadi - beginningless; mat-param -subordinate to Me; > > Go figure! > > IMO, it needs some linguistic jugglery to make "mat-param" > 'subordinate to Me'.... Ja nyt tämä poika lähti *askalle!
Whoa! That's way kewl! Shankara reads that line as: anaadimat paraM brahma; Raamaanuja reads it like: anaadi matparaM brahma R. comments upon "matparam": ahaM paro yasya tad matparam In other words he seems to read "matparam" as a bahuvriihi compound! Youse can check that out here: http://www.gitasupersite.iitk.ac.in/ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
