उपनयनम्Upanayana, investiture with the sacred thread
Verse 199
तदञ्जलिं दिनेशाय दातारं ब्रह्मचारिणम् । तच्चक्षुरिति मन्त्रेण दर्शयेद्भास्करं गुरुः ॥ १९९ ॥
tadañjaliṁ dinēśāya dātāraṁ brahmacāriṇam | taccakṣuriti mantrēṇa darśayēdbhāskaraṁ guruḥ || 199 ||
Translation
The guru has the brahmacārin give that palmful to the lord of the day, and with the mantra "taccakṣuḥ" shows him the Sun.
Word by word
- tat
- (tat) that
- añjaliṁ
- palmful
- dinēśāya
- to the lord of the day
- dātāraṁ
- giving
- brahmacāriṇam
- (brahmacāriṇam) the brahmacārin
- cakṣuḥ
- (cakṣuḥ) eye
- iti
- thus
- mantrēṇa
- with the mantra
- darśayēt
- (darśayet) should show
- bhāskaraṁ
- the Sun
- guruḥ
- the guru
Meaning
The boy offers the water to the Sun, and is shown the Sun with the mantra of verse 163. The ṭīkā adds a note on the grammar of "dātāram".
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Tadañjalim" and the rest. The guru should have the brahmacārin boy give that palmful to Dineśa, the Sun, and with the mantra "taccakṣuḥ" should show him the Sun. In "dātāram" the suffix tṛn has the sense of habit; therefore in "tadañjalim" the genitive that would follow from the rule "kartṛkarmaṇoḥ kṛti" (for agent and object with a kṛt suffix) does not apply, being forbidden by the rule "na lokāvyayaniṣṭhākhalarthatṛnām".