Yajnavalkya Kanda. Adhyaya 3, Brahmana 8. Gargi again: the imperishable, the aksara
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Each mantra is given four ways: the Sanskrit in its Devanagari script, the same sounds in Roman letters, an English translation set in our own voice, and then the line once more in plain words, for a first and unhurried reading.
Not every passage is opened to the same depth. A few central mantras carry the full cross-school commentary, where the schools are set side by side. The rest are kept here whole and faithful, set in their place but not expounded, so the book stays entire and nothing is dropped for being thought minor.
Where the schools read a line differently, the difference is kept open. None is crowned and none is corrected. Each is met on its own terms, and where they contradict, the contradiction is left standing for you to sit with.
None will defeat him
She said: Revered Brahmanas, count it a great thing if you get off from him with a bow of salutation. Truly, not one of you will ever defeat him in debate on Brahman. Thereupon the daughter of Vacaknu fell silent.
Gargi concedes to the assembly: hold it a great gain, scholars, if you escape Yajnavalkya merely by bowing to him in respect, for none of you will ever beat him in a contest about Brahman (brahmodya). With that, the daughter of Vacaknu fell silent.
In the commentaries
Gargi turns to the assembled brahmanas and tells them they would do well to count it a great gain if they win release from this man with a mere salutation, for none of them will defeat him in the knowledge of Brahman; and with that she falls silent. Sankara reads her silence not as defeat but as fulfillment. Her two arrows, the questions sharpened to their finest point, have found the one answer beyond which there is nothing to ask. She stops because the ground of grounds has been reached, and the seeker who has touched the Truth of truth has no further question to raise.