उपनिषद् · Nṛsiṃha-tāpanī Pūrva 4.20
॥
देवनागरी
ओं यो ह वै नृसिंहो देवो भगवान् या सरस्वती भूर्भुवः स्वस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai nṛsiṃho devo bhagavān yā sarasvatī bhūrbhuvaḥ svastasmai vai namo namaḥ
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
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
या सरस्वतीyā sarasvatīand she who is Sarasvatī; the one who is Sarasvatī
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
अनुवाद
Oṁ. He who is the God Nṛsiṃha — He is the Lord, and He is Sarasvatī. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
संस्करण
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The sixth name opens the row of five feminine ones: Sarasvatī, Śrī, Gaurī, Prakṛti, Vidyā.
Sarasvatī is the goddess of speech and knowledge, the wife of Brahmā; and she stands first, right after the five masculine names.
This order is the same as in the litany of the Rāma-tāpanī, where Sarasvatī went first of the four goddesses.
Note why precisely speech.
Because the whole second Upaniṣad of this book proved: the anuṣṭubh is vāk, speech; and it is that by which everything is created and into which everything is gathered. The goddess of speech is not one of the names in the row, but the name of the very thing the book is about.
The masculine predicate with a feminine name gives no trouble: the subject is one for all thirty-two, and it is Nṛsiṃha.