Upanishads · Nṛsiṃha-tāpanī Pūrva 4.42
॥
Devanāgarī
ओं यो ह वै नृसिंहो देवो भगवान् यश्च सूर्यः भूर्भुवः स्वस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
Transliteration (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai nṛsiṃho devo bhagavān yaśca sūryaḥ 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 सूर्यःyaḥ ca sūryaḥand who is the sun; and the one who is Sūrya
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 sun. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
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The twenty-eighth name is the sun.
In Vedic literature it is not one of the luminaries but the chief visible likeness of the Highest: to it the Gāyatrī is addressed, of it the Īśā Upaniṣad speaks in its dying prayer.
In this book the sun has stood twice already: in the eighth paragraph of the first Upaniṣad, where “the golden Puruṣa within the sun” was the second quarter of the chant, and in the eighth paragraph of this Upaniṣad, where the eight-syllable Sāvitrī proved a solar utterance.
Now it is named outright.
Note that with Nṛsiṃha the sun has a special sense as well. He came out of the pillar at sunset — at the hour that is neither day nor night; and the first thing the descriptions say of Him is heat.