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things prove the oneness of a thing related to two moments of time on the basis of the judgment of recognition ('this is that'); if there really were a contradiction between the two representations it would follow that all things are (not permanent but) momentary only. The fact is that the contradiction involved in one thing being connected with two places is removed by the difference of the correlative moments of time. We therefore hold to the conclusion that co-ordinated words denote one thing qualified by the possession of several attributes.
For this very reason the Vedic passage, 'He buys the Soma by means of a cow one year old, of a tawny colour, with reddish brown eyes' (arunaya, ekahayanya, pingåkshya), must be understood to enjoin that the purchase is to be effected by means of a cow one year old, possessing the attributes of taway colour, &c. This point is discussed Pa. Mi. Sa. III, 1, 12.-The Pârvapakshin there argues as follows: We admit that the word 'arunaya' (by means of a tawny one') denotes the quality of tawniness inclusive of the thing possessing that quality; for qualities as well as generic character exist only in so far as being modes of substances. But it is not possible to restrict tawny colour to connexion with a cow one year old, for the injunction of two different things (which would result from such restriction; and which would necessitate the sentence to be construed as) 'He buys by means of a cow one year old, and that a red one'is not permissible! We must therefore break up the sentence into two, one of which is constituted by the one word 'arunaya '--this word expressing that tawny colour extends equally to all the substances enjoined in that section (as instrumental towards the end of the sacrifice). And the use of the feminine case-termination of the word is merely meant to suggest a special instance (viz. the cow) of all the things, of whatever gender, which are enjoined in that section. Tawniness must not therefore
For it would imply so-called vakyabheda, split of the sentence,' which arises when one injunctory clause is made to enjoin two different things.
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| SR No. | 007680 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 05 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Julius Eggeling |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1900 |
| Total Pages | 2017 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 44 MB |