Upanishads · Nṛsiṃha-tāpanī Uttara 6.2
॥
Devanāgarī
तदेष श्लोकः
Transliteration (IAST)
tadeṣa ślokaḥ
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
तत् एषः श्लोकःtat eṣaḥ ślokaḥhere is this verse; on this there is a śloka
Translation
Here is this verse.
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42eb050c8974 · published Jul 29, 2026, 4:39:50 AM UTC
Available inRUENPage between verses with
A link before the verse.
Three khaṇḍas in a row — the fifth, sixth and seventh — end alike: a prose instruction, then “here is this verse”, then a couplet about horns.
This structure deserves notice. Prose explains; verse seals.
So one taught in antiquity: an argument can be passed on in one's own words, but a verse is memorised word for word. Hence the knots are set in metre.
Note that all three verses of this part speak of one thing — the joining of the horns — and all three are dark.
I will read them as I read everything dark in this collection: making out what can be made out, and marking where the making-out ends and guessing begins.