उपनिषद् · Nṛsiṃha-tāpanī Pūrva 4.38
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देवनागरी
ओं यो ह वै नृसिंहो देवो भगवान् यश्च मृत्युः भूर्भुवः स्वस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai nṛsiṃho devo bhagavān yaśca mṛtyuḥ 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
यः च मृत्युःyaḥ ca mṛtyuḥand who is death; and the one who is mṛtyu
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 death. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
संस्करण
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The twenty-fourth name is mṛtyu, death itself.
Not the god of death and not the judge: death.
This is the heaviest word that can stand in a doxology, and the book sets it without reservations — as the Atharvaśiras and the Rāma-tāpanī set it.
Let us understand what is said here, and not soften it. Death is not declared illusory, not declared another's work, and not carried outside what is God's. It is named He.
But the sense of such an identification is not dark — the reverse. While death is something other than God, a man stands between two powers and does not know whose will prevail. If death is He, the dying man does not pass from His hands into strangers'.
And recall that in this book's own mantra He is named mṛtyu-mṛtyu, “the death of death”, and that the fifteenth paragraph of the second Upaniṣad explained: for his devotees He kills death “merely by being remembered”.
That is, death here is called by His name — and it is also named that which He kills.