उपनयनम्Upanayana, investiture with the sacred thread
Verse 210
प्रत्येकनाम्ना हुत्वैतान् वाससाऽऽच्छाद्य बालकम् । पृच्छेन्माणवकं प्राज्ञो ब्रह्मचर्याभिमानिनम् । को वाऽऽश्रमस्ते तनय ब्रूहि किं ते मनोगतम् ॥ २१० ॥
pratyēkanāmnā hutvaitān vāsasā’’cchādya bālakam | pṛcchēnmāṇavakaṁ prājñō brahmacaryābhimāninam | kō vā’’śramastē tanaya brūhi kiṁ tē manōgatam || 210 ||
Translation
having offered for each by name and covered the boy with a cloth, the wise one should ask the boy, who now holds himself a brahmacārin: "Son, which is your āśrama? Tell me what is in your mind."
Word by word
- pratyēka
- each
- nāmnā
- by name
- hutvā
- having offered
- ētān
- for them
- vāsasā
- with a cloth
- ācchādya
- having covered
- bālakam
- (bālakam) the boy
- pṛcchēt
- (pṛcchet) should ask
- māṇavakaṁ
- the boy
- prājñaḥ
- (prājñaḥ) the wise one
- brahmacarya
- brahmacarya
- abhimāninam
- who holds himself in
- kaḥ
- (kaḥ) which
- vā
- or
- āśramaḥ
- (āśramaḥ) āśrama
- tē
- your
- tanaya
- O son
- brūhi
- tell
- kiṁ
- what
- manōgatam
- is in the mind
Meaning
The covering with a cloth marks a passage. The guru asks the boy which stage of life he means to enter, the question that opens the way, in this Tantra's scheme, to the householder's life.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 209.