{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe34/sbe34104.htm","path":"hin/sbe34/sbe34104.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe34/sbe34104.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras, commentary by Sankaracharya (SBE34), tr. by George Thibaut [1890]\n35. And because the kshattriyahood (of G\u00e2nasruti) is understood from the inferential mark (supplied by his being mentioned) later on with Kaitraratha (who was a kshattriya himself).\nG\u00e2nasruti cannot have been a S\u00fbdra by birth for that reason also that his being a kshattriya is understood from an inferential sign, viz. his being mentioned together (in one chapter) with the kshattriya Kaitraratha Abhiprat\u00e2rin. For, later on, i.e. in the passage complementary to the samvarga-vidy\u00e2, a kshattriya Kaitrarathi Abhiprat\u00e2rin is glorified, 'Once while Saunaka K\u00e2peya and Abhiprat\u00e2rin K\u00e2kshaseni were being waited on at their meal a religious student begged of them' (Kh. Up. IV, 3, 5). That this Abhiprat\u00e2rin was a Kaitrarathi (i.e. a descendant of Kitraratha) we have to infer from his connexion with a K\u00e2peya. For we know (from Sruti) about the connexion of Kitraratha himself with the K\u00e2peyas ('the K\u00e2peyas made Kitraratha perform that sacrifice;' T\u00e2ndya. Br. XX, 12, 5), and as a rule sacrificers of one and the same family employ officiating priests of one and the same family. Moreover, as we understand from Scripture ('from him a Kaitrarathi descended who was a prince 2') that he (Kaitraratha) was a prince, we must\nunderstand him to have been a kshattriya. The fact now of G\u00e2nasruti being praised in the same vidy\u00e2 with the kshattriya Abhiprat\u00e2rin intimates that the former also was a kshattriya. For as a rule equals are mentioned together with equals. That G\u00e2nasruti was a kshattriya we moreover conclude from his sending his door-keeper and from other similar signs of power (mentioned in the text).--Hence the S\u00fbdras are not qualified (for the knowledge of Brahman).\n226:2 I translate this passage as I find it in all MSS. of Sankara consulted by me (noting, however, that some MSS. read kaitrarathin\u00e2maikah). \u00c2nanda Giri expressly explains tasm\u00e2d by kaitrarath\u00e2d ity arthah.--The text of the T\u00e2ndya Br. runs: tasm\u00e2k kaitrarath\u00een\u00e2m ekah kshatrapatir g\u00e2yate, and the commentary explains: tasm\u00e2t k\u00e2ran\u00e2d ady\u00e2pi kitravamsotpann\u00e2n\u00e2m madhye eka eva r\u00e2g\u00e2 kshatrapatir p. 227 bal\u00e2dhipatir bhavati.--Grammar does not authorise the form kaitraratha used in the S\u00fbtra.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras, Sankaracharya, comm.: First Adhy\u00e2ya, Third P\u00e2da: I, 3, 35","type":"page"}