Upanishads · Rāma-tāpanī Uttara 4.6
॥
Devanāgarī
ओं यो ह वै श्रीरामचन्द्रः स भगवान् ये सर्वे वेदाः साङ्गाः सशाखाः सेतिहासपुराणाः भूर्भुवः सुवस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
Transliteration (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai śrīrāmacandraḥ sa bhagavān ye sarve vedāḥ sāṅgāḥ saśākhāḥ setihāsapurāṇāḥ bhūrbhuvaḥ suvastasmai vai namo namaḥ
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
ओं यः ह वै श्रीरामचन्द्रःoṃ yaḥ ha vai śrīrāmacandraḥOṁ. He who is Śrī-Rāmacandra; Oṁ. The very one who is Śrī-Rāmacandra
सः भगवान्saḥ bhagavānhe is the Lord; he indeed is Bhagavān
ये सर्वे वेदाः साङ्गाः सशाखाःye sarve vedāḥ sāṅgāḥ saśākhāḥall the Vedas with limbs and branches; all the Vedas with auxiliaries and recensions
भूर्भुवः सुवःbhūrbhuvaḥ suvaḥearth, mid-air, heaven; bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ
तस्मै वै नमः नमःtasmai vai namaḥ namaḥto him be bow upon bow; to him worship and worship
Translation
Oṁ. He who is Śrī-Rāmacandra — He is the Lord, and He is all the Vedas with their limbs, branches, histories and purāṇas. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
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The sixth mantra names the Vedas, and names them with everything that attends them: aṅga — the six auxiliary sciences, śākhā — the school recensions, itihāsa — the histories, purāṇa — the ancient tales.
The list is deliberately full. Not only the revelation, but everything that has grown around it: grammar, ritual science, star-lore, the Mahābhārata, the purāṇas.
And it is said: all this is He.
We read the same in the Subāla Upaniṣad, where the Vedas were called the out-breath of the Great Being. But there the speech was of origin; here — of identity.
Why is this needed? Because revelation is easily turned into a code of rules, and a code of rules into a thing without a master. Here it is said: the word of the Vedas is no report about Him — it is He in the word.
The first Upaniṣad said the same of the mantra: “the signifier is Rāma and the signified is Rāma.”
Note too this mantra's place — sixth, right after the gods. The list's order descends: Brahman, bliss, the crossing, the gods, scripture. Next come the living.