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V. Pai wrote:
> Ramakrishnan Balasubramaniam wrote:
> > Mani Varadarajan wrote:
> > > viSvam nArAyaNam devam aksharam paramam prabhum ...
> > > sa brahma sa Siva: sendra so'kshara: paramasvarAt
> > Actually I think it says (atleast the one I was taught)
> >
> > sa brahma sa shivaH sa hariH sendraso.akshararaH paramasvaraaT.h
> I think Mani is quoting from the Narayana Suukta of the Taittiriya
> (Aaranyaka? Braahmana? Upanishad? I forget) which starts
> "sahasra shiirsham devam vishvaakSham vishva-shambhuvam"
> The next line is the first one Mani quoted above (except the word "devam"
> does not appear, and "prabhum" should be "padam"),
I looked it up in a booklet -- the "devam" had somehow slipped from
my memory, but it's actually in the verse.
> and the "sa brahmaa"
> line appears as Mani quoted, but quite a bit later in the Suukta.
I checked this out too, and it's indeed true.
