[Advaita-l] Looking for the source of a passage

Venkatraghavan S agnimile at gmail.com
Mon May 11 07:36:08 EDT 2020


Namaste Subbuji,
I was going to respond saying that it was from the paippalAda samhitA when
I saw your email. Thanks for the complete reference and the link to the
entire sUkta - it is a beautiful description of vishvarUpa darshana /
sarvAtma bhAva.


On Mon, 11 May 2020, 11:28 V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:29 AM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > In the Brahma sutra bhashya 2.3.43, Shankara has cited a passage as from
> > the Atharva veda:
> >
> > तथा ह्येके शाखिनो दाशकितवादिभावं ब्रह्मण आमनन्त्याथर्वणिका ब्रह्मसूक्ते —
> > ‘ ब्रह्म दाशा ब्रह्म दासा ब्रह्मैवेमे कितवाः’ इत्यादिना ;
> >
>
> A member in the BVP kindly identified the passage:
>
> //Namaste,
>
> These words are from Athava Veda Paippalaada Samhitaa 8.9.11.
> "ब्रह्म दाशा ब्रह्म दासा ब्रह्मेमे कितवा उत ।
> स्त्रीपुंसौ ब्रह्मणो जातौ स्त्रियो ब्रह्म उत वावन ।।"
>
> Please see the following links:
> https://archive.org/details/20190720_20190720_0950/page/n278/mode/1up
> https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.345311/page/n600/mode/1up
>
> Regards,
> Sushil  //
>
> The first link is for the pdf of the Atharva Paippalada samhita.
>
> By reading the entire sukta, image of which is here:
>
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bvparishat/CAKk0Te3j0kwDsQsvbqmVe5hDMa1a5GBxbc3Y%3DyDyyEYRS3zVmw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer
>   one can recall the famous Bh. Gita verse 'brahmarpanam brahma havih...'
> where the idea 'everything is Brahman' is taught.
>
> warm regards
> subbu
>
> It also reminds one of the famous third anuvAka of the Rudram:
नमः ककुभाय निषङ्गिणे स्तेनानां पतये नमो नमो निषङ्गिण इषुधिमते तस्कराणां पतये
नमो नमो वञ्चते परिवञ्चते स्तायूनां पतये नमो नमो निचेरवे परिचरायारण्यानां
पतये नमो नमः सृकाविभ्यो जिघासद्भ्यो मुष्णतां पतये नमो नमोऽसिमद्भ्यो नक्तं
चरद्भ्यः प्रकृन्तानां पतये नमो नमः

Regards,
Venkatraghavan

>
> > No editor has cited the source of the passage, as far as I could search.
> >
> > Could anyone help locating the passage?
> >
> > Thanks
> > subbu
> >
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