[Advaita-l] NOTES ON MANDUKYA UPANISHAD - MANTRA 1

[Siva Senani Nori]

Werlingsji
   
  Spelling * is * very important as is the accent, in vedic mantras. Thanks for your vigilence.
   
  While on spelling, many Northerners find the Southern spelling of 'gam' in the place of an anusvAra wrong / odd / different as in 'axaramida.N sarvaM' versus 'axaramidagam sarvaM'. Followers of the TaittirIya recension (most of them are in the South) of the krishNa yajurveda pronounce the anusvAra as 'gam' when it precedes a syllable of equal effort - that is sibiliants s, S, and sh; and 'ha'. This is as per the grammar which governs the taittiriya recension. I believe the followers of mAdhyandina or vAjasaneyi recensions of the Suklayajurveda do not pronounce the anusvAra in such a manner,  but that the anusvAra is elongated (sa-varNa-dIrgha sandhi).
   
  Having said that, in written texts the special character of the inverted-omega-chandrabindu is the appropriate symbol for this elongated anusvAra, rather than carry a particular pronounciation into the written text.
   
  Regards
  Senani
  
Guy Werlings <werlings.guy at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
  Dear all,



It seems to me that the first mantra of the MA. U is spelt, according all 
the sources I know and also from the transliterated text from the Sanskrit 
Documents site:



.. atha maaNDukyopanishhat.h ..



OM ityetadaksharaM ida.N sarvaM tasyopavyAkhyAnaM

bhuutaM bhavad.h bhavishhyaditi sarvamoMkaara eva

yachchaanyat.h trikaalaatiitaM tadapyoMkaara eva .. 1..



and not

Omityetadaxaramidagam sarvam



Of course there is no problem with spelling axaraM with an x as both x, ksh 
and kSh are acknowledged by Itrans.



Sorry to be the eternal "minor typos pinpointer". I do apologize and hope 
not to offend shrii kuntimaddisada.



praNAm-s



Guy





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> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:20:51 -0700 (PDT)
> From: kuntimaddi sadananda 
> Subject: [Advaita-l] NOTES ON MANDUKYA UPANISHAD AND KARIKA- AGAMA
> PRAKARANA-MANTRA I
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> Ch. 1: Agama PrakaraNa-Mantra I
>
> Mantra 1:
>
> HariH Om! Omityetadaxaramidagam sarvam| tasyopavyAkhyAnam| bhUtam bhavad
> bhavishyad iti, sarvam OmkAra eva| yaccAnyat trikAlAtItam tadapi OmkAra
> eva||
>
> HariH! Om! This very word 'Om' is this entire phenomenal world. A clear
> explanation of this follows. 'All this' means all that is within the
> three periods of time, that is all that is past, all that is present and
> all that will be in future - All this is nothing but OmkAra only. If
> there is anything that exists beyond the three periods of time is also,
> indeed, Omkaara only.
>



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