Upanishads · Nṛsiṃha-tāpanī Pūrva 4.25
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Devanāgarī
ओं यो ह वै नृसिंहो देवो भगवान् यश्चोङ्कारः भूर्भुवः स्वस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
Transliteration (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai nṛsiṃho devo bhagavān yaścoṅkāraḥ bhūrbhuvaḥ svastasmai vai namo namaḥ
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
ओं यः ह वैoṃ yaḥ ha vaiOṁ. He who; Oṁ. The very one who
नृसिंहः देवः सः भगवान्nṛsiṃhaḥ devaḥ saḥ bhagavānis the God Nṛsiṃha — he is the Lord; the god Nṛsiṃha is — he is Bhagavān
यः च ओङ्कारःyaḥ ca oṅkāraḥand who is the Oṁkāra; and the one who is the syllable Oṁ
भूर्भुवः स्वःbhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥearth, 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 the God Nṛsiṃha — He is the Lord, and He is the Oṁkāra. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
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The eleventh name is the Oṁkāra, and with it begins a new class: the syllable and its measures.
The whole fourth Upaniṣad has been moving to this. Its third paragraph cited the first verse of the Māṇḍūkya — “Oṁ, this syllable is all this” — and after it the four feet of the Ātman.
Now the syllable is named His name.
Note that the order in the litany is the reverse of that in which the examination went. There one was led from the syllable to the four feet and to the fourth; here the Oṁkāra stands after the gods and goddesses, and its measures after it.
A litany does not build a ladder of dignities at all: it goes through the list.
And the next paragraph will name what is usually absent from such lists — the four half-measures.