Upanishads · Nṛsiṃha-tāpanī Pūrva 4.43
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Devanāgarī
ओं यो ह वै नृसिंहो देवो भगवान् यश्च सोमः भूर्भुवः स्वस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
Transliteration (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai nṛsiṃho devo bhagavān yaśca somaḥ 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 सोमःyaḥ ca somaḥand who is the moon; and the one who is Soma
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 moon. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
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The twenty-ninth name is soma: the moon and at the same time the juice of the sacrificial plant with which in antiquity libations were poured to the gods.
Both meanings live in the word inseparably, and both lead to one thing: soma is what quenches and what grows.
Paired with the previous name comes the everlasting pair: sun and moon, the burning and the quenching.
We read this pair in the eighth paragraph of the first Upaniṣad, where fire, sun and moon were laid on three quarters of the chant; and in the sixth verse of the fourth Upaniṣad of the pūrva-tāpanī of the Rāma-tāpanī, where the world was called “made of fire and soma”.
Note that tradition links the moon with the mind and the sun with the eye. Hence these two names, set side by side, cover both the outer light and the inner.