Mandukya Upanishad: Verse 9
जागरितस्थानो वैश्वानरोऽकारः प्रथमा मात्रा आप्तेरादिमत्त्वाद्वा आप्नोति ह वै सर्वान्कामानादिश्च भवति य एवं वेद ॥९॥
जागरित-स्थानः । वैश्वानरः । अकारः । प्रथमा । मात्रा । आप्तेः । आदिमत्त्वात् । वा । आप्नोति । ह । वै । सर्वान् । कामान् । आदिः । च । भवति । यः । एवम् । वेद ॥९॥
jāgaritasthāno vaiśvānaro ’kāraḥ prathamā mātrā āpteḥ ādimattvād vā āpnoti ha vai sarvān kāmān ādiś ca bhavati ya evaṃ veda ||9||
ജാഗ്രതസ്ഥാനം ഉള്ള വൈശ്വാനരൻ അകാരമാണ്—ആദ്യമാത്ര; ആപ്തി (വ്യാപ്തി/പ്രാപ്തി) കാരണം കൊണ്ടോ, അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ആദിമത്ത്വം (ആരംഭസ്വഭാവം) കാരണം കൊണ്ടോ. ഇങ്ങനെ അറിയുന്നവൻ സർവകാമങ്ങളും പ്രാപിച്ചു ആദിയായി ഭവിക്കുന്നു।
The waking-state (aspect), Vaiśvānara, is the phoneme A, the first measure—because of pervasion/attainment (āpti) or because of being the beginning (ādimattva). He indeed attains all desires and becomes the first who knows thus.
- vaiśvānaro ’kāraḥ = vaiśvānaraḥ + akāraḥ (visarga→’ before vowel)
- sarvān kāmān = sarvān + kāmān (n+k sandhi with anusvāra not written in IAST here)
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