The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Sanatsujātīyam

p. 277

p. 277

‘आचार्ययोनिमिह’ इत्यत्र आचार्यस्य योनित्वं दर्शितम् ।तत्कथं मातापितृव्यतिरेकेणाचार्यस्य योनित्वमित्याशङ्क्य स एव साक्षाज्जनयितेत्याह—

In plain words

The line ‘the teacher is the womb, here’ showed the teacher to be a womb. But then how — with mother and father set aside — can the teacher be a womb at all? Anticipating that doubt, the text answers: he himself, directly, is the one who begets you.

Close to the Sanskrit

In 'ācāryayonim iha' — here the teacher's being-a-womb has been shown. Then how, apart from mother and father, is there a being-a-womb of the teacher? — having raised this doubt, he says that he himself is directly the begetter: