पिताहमस्य जगतो माता धाता पितामहः ।वेद्यं पवित्रमोङ्कार ऋक्साम यजुरेव च ॥
pitāham asya jagato mātā dhātā pitāmahaḥ | vedyaṃ pavitram oṅkāra ṛksāma yajur eva ca ||
- पिता · pitā
- father
- अहम् · aham
- I
- जगतः · jagataḥ
- of the world
- माता · mātā
- mother
- धाता · dhātā
- sustainer, ordainer
- पितामहः · pitāmahaḥ
- grandfather
- वेद्यम् · vedyam
- the knowable
- पवित्रम् · pavitram
- the purifier
- ओङ्कारः · oṅkāraḥ
- the syllable OM
- ऋक् साम यजुः · ṛk sāma yajuḥ
- Rig, Sama, and Yajur Vedas
“I am the father of this world, the mother, the sustainer, the grandsire — the knowable, the purifier, the syllable OM, and the Rig, Sama, and Yajur Vedas.”
— Original plain-language translation
Kinship and scripture converge on one person: every parent's care and every Veda's word point to him. Father and mother together leave no tenderness outside God. The OM of 8.13 reappears as his own sound.
— Reader's notes (original)