[Advaita-l] Rig mantras referred to in the Taittiriya Upanishad?

[V Subrahmanian]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com> wrote:

> praNAms Sri Subbu prabhuji
> Hare Krishna
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> Also, the mantra occurring in the brāhmaṇa is called 'śloka'.
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> >  That is very interesting.  Infact, I am first time hearing this.
> Normally we say this is saMhita mantra, brAhmaNa mantra etc. we don’t say
> this is brAhmaNa shloka since brAhmaNa mantra-s too have the svara-s like
> saMhita mantra-s and as we know, the brAhmaNa portion is also a part of the
> veda-s.  Would you please elaborate  if you know anything more on this??
> Thanks in advance.
>

The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Up. 2.4.10 has a mantra (Vedas being brought out by
Brahman at the beginning of creation) which has these words:  पुराणं विद्या
उपनिषदः श्लोकाः (purāṇam, vidyā, upaniṣadaḥ, ślokāḥ...)  for which Shankara
in the bhāṣya says:

श्लोकाः ब्राह्मणप्रभवा मन्त्राः ‘तदेते श्लोकाः’ (बृ. उ. ४-४-८)
<http://advaitasharada.sringeri.net/php/format.php?bhashya=Brha&page=04&hval=%E2%80%98%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%87%20%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%83%E2%80%99%20(%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%83.%20%E0%A4%89.%20%E0%A5%AA-%E0%A5%AA-%E0%A5%AE)#BR_C04_S04_V08>
 इत्यादयः,
'ślokāḥ brāḥmaṇaprabhavāh mantrā...'[śloka-s are mantras which are from the
brāhmaṇa].
Vidwan Sri Mani Dravid Sastrigal said there is an discussion in the
purvamimamsa sutras on this too.
regards
subbu


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