Satapatha Bramhana Part 05

SR No.: 007680
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

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I ADHVÂYA, 4 PÅDA, 11.
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11. Not from the mention of the number even, on account of the diversity and of the excess.
The Vågasaneyins read in their text He in whom the five "five-people" and the ether rest, him alone I believe to be the Self; I, who know, believe him to be Brahman' (Bri. Up. IV, 4, 17). The doubt here arises whether this text be meant to set forth the categories as established in Kapila's doctrine, or not.—The Parvapakshin maintains the former view, on the ground that the word 'five-people, qualified by the word 'five,' intimates the twenty-five categories of the Sankhyas. The compound 'five-people! (pañkaganah) denotes groups of five beings, just as the term panka-palyah denotes aggregates of five bundles of grass. And as we want to know how many such groups there are, the additional qualification 'five' intimates that there are five such groups; just as if it were said 'five fivebundles, i.e. five aggregates consisting of five bundles each.' We thus understand that the five five-people' are twentyfive things, and as the mantra in which the term is met with refers to final release, we recognise the twenty-five categories known from the Sankhya-smriti which are here referred to as objects to be known by persons desirous of release. For the followers of Kapila teach that there is the fundamental causal substance which is not an effect. There are seven things, viz. the Mahat, and so on, which are causal substances as well as effects. There are sixteen effects. The soul is neither a causal substance nor an effect' (Sån. Ka. 3). The mantra therefore is meant to intimate the categories known from the Sankhya.-To this the Satra replies that from the mention of the number twenty-five supposed to be implied in the expression 'the five fivepeople,' it does not follow that the categories of the Sankhyas are meant. On account of the diversity,' i.e. on account of the five-people further qualified by the number five being different from the categories of the Sankhyas. For in the text in whom the five five-people and the ether rest,' the 'in whom shows the five-people to have their abode, and hence their Self, in Brahman; and
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