Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.14
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 1.4.14
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- Sanskrit
1.4.14
sa naiva vyabhavattacchreyorūpamatyasṛjata dharmaṃ tadetatkṣatrasya kṣatraṃ yaddharmastasmāddharmātparaṃ nāstyatho abalīyānbalīyām̐samāśam̐sate dharmeṇa yathā rājñaivaṃ yo vai sa dharmaḥ satyaṃ vai tattasmātsatyaṃ vadantamāhurdharmaṃ vadatīti dharmaṃ vā vadantam̐ satyaṃ vadatītyetaddhyevaitadubhayaṃ bhavati
Yet he did not flourish. He projected that excellent form, justice (Dharma). This justice is the controller of the Kshatriya. Therefore there is nothing higher than justice. (So) even a weak man hopes (to defeat) a stronger man through justice, as (one does) through the King. That justice is truth. Therefore they say of a person speaking the truth, 'He speaks what is just,' or of a person speaking what is just, 'He speaks the truth,' for both these are justice.
Translations (3)
- The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya — Swami Madhavananda 1934, English
- The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English
- The Upanishads — Swami Nikhilananda 1949, English
Commentaries (10)
- Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text) — Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaṭīkā — Sanskrit
- Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- Dīpikā of Vidyāraṇya — Mādhava, Sanskrit
Discussed in (10)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English
- Indian Philosophy — Radhakrishnan 1923, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Keith 1925, English
- Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty — Raychaudhuri 1923, English
- Studies in the Origins of Buddhism — Pande 1957, English
- State and Government in Ancient India — Altekar 1949, English
- The History of Buddhist Thought — Thomas 1933, English
- Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon — Keith 1923, English
- Public Administration in Ancient India — Banerjea 1916, English
- Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government — Coomaraswamy 1942, English