sarve bhavantu sukhina ḥ
Dominik Wujastyk
d.wujastyk at UCL.AC.UK
Fri May 1 13:33:00 UTC 2009
... sarve santu nirāmayaḥ
I've been asked where this famous sentence comes from, historically, and I
don't know.
The Mahāmantrānusāriṇī (thanks to Peter Skilling and GRETIL) has it:
C.3.16. sarve satvāḥ sarve prāṇāḥ sarve bhūtāś ca kevalāḥ /
sarve vai sukhinaḥ santu sarve santu nirāmayāḥ /
sarve bhadrāṇi paśyantu mā kaścit pāpam āgamat //
But people usually ascribe it to one of the upaniṣads, where as far as I
can see it doesn't appear. Is it known from other, older sources?
Thanks,
Dominik
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