Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

Page 2121

266
ANUGÍTÂ.
means of the Prâna ', and which then goes into the A pâna, and then becoming assimilated with the Udâna leaves the body, and with the Vyana envelopes all the quarters °, then (finally) dwells in the Samâna“. So speech formerly spoke. Hence the mind is distinguished by reason of its being immovable, and the goddess distinguished by reason of her being movable.
CHAPTER VII.
The Brâhmana said: On this, too, O beautiful one! they relate this ancient story, (which shows) of what description is the institution of the seven sacrificial priests. The
'Cf. Khandogya, p. 285, and the passage there quoted by San. kara as well as Anandagiri's gloss. And see, too, p. 353 infra.
* Viz. the part of it which specially appertains to speech-the throat, &c.
• All the nâdis or passages of the body, Arguna Misra.
• I.e. at the navel in the form of sound, as the material cause of all words. There and in that condition speech dwells, after going through the body, as above stated. There, adds Arguna Mista, devotees are to meditate on speech.
This is not quite clear, but the meaning seems to be, that the merit of the immovable mind consists in its unchangeability, and that of speech in being the cause of variations in the movable mind by conveying new knowledge and new impressions. Cf. on this result, K’handogya-upanishad, p. 482.
• Arguna Misra says, the last chapter explained Prânâyâma, and this explains Pratyahara. Pranayama is the restraint of the lifewinds, Pratyahara that of the senses, according to the Yoga philosophy (see the quotation in the commentary at Yoga-sätra III, 1, and see also pp. 141-145). Cl. also Gîtâ, p. 61. The Saplahouri-vidhana as taught in the Taittirîya-brahmana and Aranyaka is to be found a few pages after the pages referred to for the Dasahovi-vidhana at p. 261 supra. And the other Vidhanas also are to be found in the same parts of those books.
Digitized by Google