Upaniṣads · Rāma-tāpanī Uttara 4.14
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Devanāgarī
ओं यो ह वै श्रीरामचन्द्रः स भगवान् यश्चान्तको भूर्भुवः सुवस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
Transliteración (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai śrīrāmacandraḥ sa bhagavān yaścāntako bhūrbhuvaḥ suvastasmai vai namo namaḥ
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SánscritoIASTSignificado
ओं यः ह वै श्रीरामचन्द्रःoṃ yaḥ ha vai śrīrāmacandraḥOṁ. He who is Śrī-Rāmacandra; Oṁ. The very one who is Śrī-Rāmacandra
सः भगवान्saḥ bhagavānhe is the Lord; he indeed is Bhagavān
यः च अन्तकःyaḥ ca antakaḥwho is the Ender; the one who is Antaka
भूर्भुवः सुवःbhūrbhuvaḥ suvaḥearth, mid-air, heaven; bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ
तस्मै वै नमः नमःtasmai vai namaḥ namaḥto him be bow upon bow; to him worship and worship
Traducción
Oṁ. He who is Śrī-Rāmacandra — He is the Lord, and He is he who is the Ender. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
Versión
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The fourteenth mantra: antaka — “the one who ends, who brings to a close”.
This name too is applied to Yama, but it means something else. Yama judges; Antaka ends. The first is of justice, the second of the very act of the limit.
In the fourteenth verse of the fourth Upaniṣad of the pūrva Rāma was named daśāsyāntaka-rūpin — “having the form of the end of the Ten-faced”. There I noted the turn: not “who killed Rāvaṇa” but “having the form of his end”.
Here is the same word, but now without an object. Not the end of someone — simply the Ender.
It is worth pausing on why a doxology needs such a name.
Because everything has an end, and man knows this better than anything else. The thought that all will end can be borne, if one knows whose work it is. What is unbearable is the other thing: that things end of themselves, with no face at all.
The book names the Ender by name, and the name is Rāma.