Supplemental note to Shata-shlokI of Shankara - 23,24 of 101

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Namaste,

 

Thank you all, Sundarji, Adi-ji, and Ken-ji for the input about 'kuhaka' from

Rg Veda and other sources. I am fascinated that I have so many of you providing

me with such a deep analysis of the words.

 

This note is just to modify the meaning of the last line of Shloka 23, in view

of Sundarji's suggestion that 'kahaka' could be a mistype for 'kuhaka' and also

his suggestion about AvarIvaH. Though the grammatical derivation of 'AvarIvaH'

is not clear to me, I go with him in assuming it is a derivation from the root

verb 'A - vR' to cover and accordingly construct the following meanings for the

last line of the shloka:

 

 

atha etat kiM bhavet : For what is there,

 

kuhaka-salilavat : like the water produced by a magician

 

sharmaNi Atmani AvarIvaH : that can hide the bliss in the Self?

 

 

 

PraNAms to all students of Adi Shankaracharya

 

profvk

 

 

 

 

Prof. V. Krishnamurthy

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[Guest guest]

advaitin, "V. Krishnamurthy" <profvk> wrote:

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> atha etat kiM bhavet : For what is there,

>

> kuhaka-salilavat : like the water produced by a magician

>

> sharmaNi Atmani AvarIvaH : that can hide the bliss in the Self?

 

Namaste,

 

The third line of the Nasadiya Sukta is: (Rig Veda 10:29)

 

http://home.comcast.net/~r1p1/nAsadeeyasUktam-s.pdf

 

kim AvarIvaH kuhakasya sharman | (some have kuha kasya !)

 

1.

THEN was not non-existent nor existent:

There was no realm of air, no sky beyond it.

What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter?

Was water there, unfathomed depth of water?

(Griffith's tr.)

 

 

Regards,

 

Sunder

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--- Sunder Hattangadi <sunderh wrote:

>

> The third line of the Nasadiya Sukta is:

> (Rig Veda 10:29)

>

> http://home.comcast.net/~r1p1/nAsadeeyasUktam-s.pdf

>

> kim AvarIvaH kuhakasya sharman | (some have

> kuha kasya !)

>

> 1.

> THEN was not non-existent nor existent:

> There was no realm of air, no sky beyond it.

> What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter?

> Was water there, unfathomed depth of water?

>

 

Namaste Again,

 

I had a look at a number of hymns and was very much

struck by the wonder in 'kuha', very much like the

wonder when the magician makes the elephant disappear

and reappear. 'Where has it gone?' ' Where was it

hidden?' It is not being used in a rather prosaic way

as in 'Where are my car keys?'

 

 

 

Then I was 'struck' again by the similarity of sound

with 'guha'....this appears as gUlham in verse 3 of

nasadiya sukta.....which is a very common Rgvedic root

word.

 

Speculation then ran a bit wild but in the context of

Shankara's composition there is relevance I feel.

 

Looking forward to the next posts in this series.

 

Ken Knight

 

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‘From this Supreme Self are all these, indeed, breathed forth.’

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

CORRECTION - The reference should read Rig Veda 10:129 (NOT 10:29)

 

 

 

S.

 

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> The third line of the Nasadiya Sukta is: (Rig Veda 10:29)

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