[Advaita-l] A different way to understand Brahma Sutra Janmadyasya Yatah

[Venkatesh Murthy]

Namaste
On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 6:43 PM, D.V.N.Sarma డి.వి.ఎన్.శర్మ
<dvnsarma at gmail.com> wrote:
> This means the original sutra must be
> जन्मः आद्यस्य यतः
>
> विसर्गलोपात्
>
> जन्म आद्यस्य यतः
>
> किन्तु लुप्त विसर्ग संदर्भे सवर्णदीर्घसन्धिः न भवति।

There is no Visarga. Because the Prathama Vibhakti Ekavacana of जन्मन्
Sabda is जन्म.

It is not अकारान्त Sabda. Kindly see all the Vibhaktis below link.

http://sanskrit.inria.fr/cgi-bin/sktdeclin?q=janman;g=Neu



> regards,
> Sarma.
>



>
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l
> <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>> Namaste
>>
>> जन्माद्यस्य यतः इति सूत्रेण शिवस्यैव बोधो भवति।
>>
>> The knowledge of Siva is given by the Sutra Janmadyasya Yatah. Why?
>>
>> We have to split the words like this.
>>
>> जन्म आद्यस्य यतः
>>
>> From Him there is the birth of The First One Adya.
>>
>> Who is the First One Adya? It is Vishnu. Adya is one name of Vishnu.
>> He is the first one and from Him there was a Lotus and in that Lotus
>> Brahma was born. Then Brahma created the Universe. There are many many
>> Pramanas for this.
>>
>> Who is left in the Trimurtis? Siva.
>>
>> Therefore the meaning of the Sutra is From Siva there is the birth of
>> the First One Adya Vishnu. From Vishnu Brahma and from Brahma the
>> Universe was created.
>>
>> Siva is therefore the Para Brahman of Vedanta.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>>
>> -Venkatesh
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Regards

-Venkatesh