उपनयनम्Upanayana, investiture with the sacred thread
Verse 211
ततः शिष्यः सावहितो धृत्वा गुरुपदद्वयम् । करोतु मामाश्रमिणं ब्रह्मविद्योपदेशतः ॥ २११ ॥
tataḥ śiṣyaḥ sāvahitō dhṛtvā gurupadadvayam | karōtu māmāśramiṇaṁ brahmavidyōpadēśataḥ || 211 ||
Translation
Then the pupil, attentive, holding both the guru's feet, should say: "By teaching me the knowledge of Brahman, make me one who belongs to an āśrama."
Word by word
- tataḥ
- (tataḥ) then
- śiṣyaḥ
- (śiṣyaḥ) the pupil
- sāvahitaḥ
- (sāvahitaḥ) attentive
- dhṛtvā
- having held
- guru
- of the guru
- pada
- feet
- dvayam
- (dvayam) both
- karōtu
- make
- mām
- (mām) me
- āśramiṇaṁ
- one who belongs to an āśrama
- brahmavidyā
- of the knowledge of Brahman
- upadēśataḥ
- (upadeśataḥ) by the teaching
Meaning
The commentary: "by the teaching of the knowledge of Brahman" means by the teaching of the Sāvitrī, the Gāyatrī. Without it one has no āśrama at all.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Tataḥ" and the rest. After that the pupil, attentive, holding the guru's two feet, should pray, "O guru, by the teaching of the knowledge of Brahman, by the instruction in the Sāvitrī, make me one who belongs to an āśrama (āśramin)."