{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38199.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38199.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38199.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n56. Or else there is no contradiction (implied in our opinion); as in the case of mantras and the like.\nOr else we may put the matter as follows. There is no reason whatever to suspect a contradiction if we declare certain vidy\u00e2s enjoined in one S\u00e2kh\u00e2 to be valid for the udg\u00eetha and so on belonging to other S\u00e2kh\u00e2s also; for there is no more room for contradiction than in the case of mantras. We observe that mantras, acts, and qualities of acts which are enjoined in one S\u00e2kh\u00e2 are taken over by other S\u00e2kh\u00e2s also. So e.g. the members of certain Yagur-veda S\u00e2kh\u00e2s do not exhibit in their text the mantra, 'Thou art the kutaru 1', which accompanies the taking of the stone (with which the rice-grains are ground); all the same we meet in their text with the following injunction of application, 'Thou art the cock, with this mantra he takes the stone; or else with the mantra, Thou art the kutaru.'\nAgain, the text of some S\u00e2kh\u00e2 does not contain a direct injunction of the five offerings called pray\u00e2gas which are made to the fuel and so on, but it contains the injunction of secondary matters connected with the pray\u00e2gas, viz. in the passage, 'the seasons indeed are the pray\u00e2gas; they are to be offered in one and the same spot 1.'--Again, the text of some S\u00e2kh\u00e2 does not contain an injunction as to the species of the animal to be sacrificed to Agn\u00eeshomau--such as would be 'a he-goat is sacrificed to Agn\u00eeshomau 2;'--but in the same S\u00e2kh\u00e2 we meet with a mantra which contains the required specification, 'Hotri', recite the anuv\u00e2ky\u00e2, for the fat of the omentum of the he-goat 3.' Similarly mantras enjoined in one Veda only, such as 'O Agni, promote the hautra, promote the sacrifice,' are seen to be taken over into other Vedas also. Another example (of the transference of mantras) is supplied by the hymn, 'He who as soon as born showed himself intelligent,' &c. (Rik. Samh. II, 12), which although read in the text of the Bahvrikas is employed in the Taittir\u00eeya Veda also, according to Taitt. Samh. VII, 5, 5, 2, 'The Sagan\u00eeya hymn is to be recited.'--Just as, therefore, the members of sacrificial actions on which certain vidy\u00e2s rest are valid everywhere, so the vidy\u00e2s themselves also which rest on those members are valid for all S\u00e2kh\u00e2s and Vedas.\n273:1 Maitr\u00e2yan\u00eeya Samhit\u00e2 I, 1, 6.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Third Adhy\u00e2ya. Th...","type":"page"}