Upaniṣads · Nṛsiṃha-tāpanī Pūrva 4.34
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Devanāgarī
ओं यो ह वै नृसिंहो देवो भगवान् ये चाष्टौ ग्रहाः भूर्भुवः स्वस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
Transliteración (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai nṛsiṃho devo bhagavān ye cāṣṭau grahāḥ bhūrbhuvaḥ svastasmai vai namo namaḥ
Palabra por palabra
SánscritoIASTSignificado
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
ये च अष्टौ ग्रहाःye ca aṣṭau grahāḥand which are the eight graspers; and those that are the eight grahas
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
Traducción
Oṁ. He who is the God Nṛsiṃha — He is the Lord, and He is the eight graspers. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
Versión
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The twentieth name is “the eight grahas”.
Graha means “the grasping, the taking one”. Usually the planets are so called, and usually they are nine: the seven luminaries plus Rāhu and Ketu. Here they are eight — a count met in the old books, meaning, it seems, the row without Ketu.
But the word has another, ritual meaning as well: graha is the cup with which soma is drawn.
We examined both sides in reading the tenth section of the Atharvaśiras, where the same “eight grahas” stood.
This agreement shows once more from what source both litanies come.
Note that the planets in the Indian reckoning are not mere luminaries: they take a man into their terms and hold him. And now the grasping ones are named He — and this is the real deliverance from the fear of the stars: not a denial of their power, but the knowledge of whose power it is.