Upanishads · Rāma-tāpanī Uttara 5.1
॥
Devanāgarī
अथ हैनं भारद्वाजो याज्ञवल्क्यं उपसमेत्योवाच श्रीराममन्त्रराजस्य माहात्म्यं अनुब्रूहीति ।
Transliteration (IAST)
atha hainaṃ bhāradvājo yājñavalkyaṃ upasametyovāca śrīrāmamantrarājasya māhātmyaṃ anubrūhīti |
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
अथ ह एनम् भारद्वाजःatha ha enam bhāradvājaḥthen Bhāradvāja to Yājñavalkya; next Bhāradvāja to Yājñavalkya
याज्ञवल्क्यम् उपसमेत्य उवाचyājñavalkyam upasametya uvācahaving approached, said; having drawn near, spoke
श्रीराममन्त्रराजस्यśrīrāmamantrarājasyaof the king of mantras of Śrī-Rāma; of Śrī-Rāma's chief mantra
माहात्म्यम् अनुब्रूहि इतिmāhātmyam anubrūhi itideclare the greatness; tell forth the majesty
Translation
Then Bhāradvāja, having approached Yājñavalkya, said: “Declare the greatness of the king of mantras of Śrī-Rāma.”
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The book's last chapter, and it is opened by the same Bhāradvāja who asked in the two before.
In the second chapter he asked: “what is the ferrying one?” In the fourth: “by what mantras does He show Himself?” Now: “declare the greatness of the king of mantras.”
The sequence is visible. First — what it is; then — how one praises with it; now — what it can do.
Note the word upasametya — “having approached, having drawn near”. It is added deliberately and means what these books call upasatti: the pupil comes up to the teacher, and does not hail him from afar.
Māhātmya — “greatness, glory” — is a special kind of speech in the śāstras: the enumeration of what a holy place, rite or name gives. Such lists can be measureless, and to the modern reader they seem exaggeration.
This chapter is of that kind, and it will say dread things of sins and of their burning. We will read it attentively and will neither soften nor explain away.
First, though, in the three following paragraphs, the mantra itself will be parsed — by its three parts.