Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Bhavat | "the present"

Bhavat

Bhavat (IAST)
Translation: "the present"
From Mandukya Upanishad (Verse 1)

A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Monier-Williams)
Sanskrit: भवत्
Transliteration: Bhavat
Translation: "being, present"

Mundaka and Mandukya Upanishads (Swami Sharvananda)
Sanskrit: भवत्
Transliteration: Bhavat
Translation: "the present"

The Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad (Swami Krishnananda)
Transliteration: Bhavat
Translation: "all that is now in the present"


References:
  1. Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press
  2. Sharvananda, Swami (1920). Mundaka and Mandukya Upanishads: With Sanskrit Text; Paraphrase with Word-For-Word Literal Translation, English, Rendering and Comments. Mylapore, Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math
  3. Krishnananda, Swami (1996). The Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad. Retrieved from https://www.swami-krishnananda.org/mand_0.html. p. 22.