Questions of King Milinda Part 02

SR No.: 007682
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 2240
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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VEDÂNTA-SÛTRAS.
udgitha to be superadded to each other, or may we proceed with regard to them as we like ?—To this doubt the Satra replies, “it is according to the abodes.' As the abidingplaces of those meditations, viz. the Stotra and so on, are combined (for the performance of the sacrifice), so those meditations also. For a meditation is subject to what it rests on.
62. And on account of the teaching
As the Stotra and the other members of the sacrifice on which the meditations under discussion rest are taught in the three Vedas, so also the meditations resting on them. The meaning of this remark is that also as far as the mode of information is concerned there is no difference between the members of a sacrificial act and the meditations referring to them.
63. On account of the rectification.
The passage, 'From the seat of the Hotri he sets right any mistake committed in the udgîtha' (Kh. Up. I, 5, 5), declares that, owing to the might of the meditation on the unity of pranava and udgîtha, the Hotri sets right any mistake he may commit in his work, by means of the work of the Hotri.
Now, as a meditation mentioned in one Veda is connected (with what is mentioned in another Veda) in the same way as a thing mentioned in another Veda, the above passage suggests the conclusion that all meditations on members of sacrificial acts—in whatever Veda they may be mentionedhave to be combined 1.
64. And because the text states a quality (of the vidya) to be common (to the three Vedas).
The text states that the syllable Om which is a quality,
TA'thing' belonging to the Rig-veda, viz. the pranava, is, according to the Khandogya-passage, connected with the Sâma-veda meditation on the udgitha. Hence meditations also which belong to different Vedas may be combined; for there is no difference between them and things as far as connexion is concerned.
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