{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38149.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38149.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38149.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n6. If it be said that (the udg\u00eetha vidy\u00e2 of the Bri. Up. and that of the Kh\u00e2nd. Up.) are separate on account (of the difference) of the texts; we deny this on the ground of their (essential) non-difference.\nWe read in the V\u00e2gasaneyaka I, 3, 1, 'The Devas said, well, let us overcome the Asuras at the sacrifices by means of the Udg\u00eetha. They said to speech: Do thou sing out for us.--Yes, said speech,' &c. The text thereupon relates how speech and the other pr\u00e2nas were pierced by the Asuras with evil, and therefore unable to effect what was expected from them, and how in the end recourse was had to the chief vital air, 'Then they said to the breath in the mouth: Do thou sing for us.--Yes, said the breath, and sang.'--A similar story is met with in the Kh\u00e2ndogya I, 2. There we read at first that 'the devas took the udg\u00eetha, thinking they would vanquish the Asuras with it;' the text then relates how the other pr\u00e2nas were pierced with evil and thus foiled by the Asuras, and how the Devas in the end had recourse to the chief vital air, 'Then comes this chief vital air; on that they meditated as udg\u00eetha.'--As both these passages glorify the chief vital air, it follows that they both are injunctions of a meditation on the vital air. A doubt, however, arises whether the two vidy\u00e2s are separate vidy\u00e2s or one vidy\u00e2 only.\nHere the p\u00fbrvapakshin maintains that for the reasons specified in the first adhikarana of the present p\u00e2da the two\nvidy\u00e2s have to be considered as one.--But, an objection is raised, there is a difference of procedure which contradicts the assumption of unity. The V\u00e2gasaneyins represent the chief vital air as the producer of the udg\u00eetha ('Do thou sing out for us'), while the Khandogas speak of it as itself being the udg\u00eetha ('on that they meditated as udg\u00eetha'). How can this divergence be reconciled with the assumption of the unity of the vidy\u00e2s?--The difference pointed out, the p\u00fbrvapakshin replies, is not important enough to bring about a separation of the two vidy\u00e2s, since we observe that the two both agree in a plurality of points. Both texts relate that the Devas and the Asuras were fighting; both at first glorify speech and the other pr\u00e2nas in their relation to the udg\u00eetha, and thereupon, finding fault with them, pass on to the chief vital air; both tell how through the strength of the latter the Asuras were scattered as a ball of earth is scattered when hitting a solid stone. And, moreover, the text of the V\u00e2gasaneyaka also coordinates the chief vital air and the udg\u00eetha in the clause, 'He is udg\u00eetha' (Bri. Up. I, 3, 23). We therefore have to assume that in the Kh\u00e2ndogya also the chief pr\u00e2na has secondarily to be looked upon as the producer of the udg\u00eetha.--The two texts thus constitute one vidy\u00e2 only.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Third Adhy\u00e2ya. Third P\u00e2da.: III, 3, 6","type":"page"}