{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38207.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38207.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38207.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n64. And because the text states a quality (of the vidy\u00e2) to be common (to the three Vedas).\nThe text states that the syllable Om which is a quality,\ni.e. the abode of a meditation, is common to the three Vedas, 'By that syllable the threefold knowledge proceeds. With Om the Adhvaryu gives orders, with Om the Hotri recites, with Om the Udg\u00e2tri sings.' This suggests that, as the abode of the vidy\u00e2 (viz. the Omk\u00e2ra) is common, the vidy\u00e2s which abide in it are common also.--Or else the S\u00fbtra may be explained as follows. If the udg\u00eetha and so on, which are matters qualifying the sacrificial action, were not all of them common to all sacrificial performances, the vidy\u00e2s resting on them would not go together. But the scriptural passages which teach the sacrificial performances and extend over all subordinate matters, state that the udg\u00eetha and so on are common to all performances. As thus the abodes of the vidy\u00e2s go together, the vidy\u00e2s abiding in them go together likewise.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Third Adhy\u00e2ya. Th...","type":"page"}