Questions of King Milinda Part 01

SR No.: 007681
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1890
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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X KANDA, 2 ADHYAYA, 6 BRAHMANA, 14. 325
12. And, having the Yagus for its light, it is a hundred and one-fold in respect of the Yagus (formulas), the first fifty and the last fifty which are (used) make a hundred forms; and the Yagus
which are used between them are the one hundred and first form. In this way also the sevenfold one becomes a hundred and one-fold, and whosoever knows this obtains even by the sevenfold one whatever wish there is both in a life of a hundred years and in the one hundred and one-fold (altar).
13. In this way, indeed, all sacrifices' up to the Agnihotra are a hundred and one-fold by way of verses, formulas, words, syllables, rites, and hymntunes; and whosoever knows this obtains by every sacrifice whatever wish there is either in a life of a hundred years, or in the one hundred and one-fold (altar), or in the sevenfold one. Thus much as to the sacrifice.
14. Now as to the body. There are these four sets of five fingers and toes, the two-wrist and elbow, the arm, the shoulder-blade, and the collarbone,-that makes twenty-five; and in the same way (each of) these other limbs,-that makes a hundred parts, and the trunk itself is the one hundred and first part. As regards the sevenfold state this has been explained 3.
That is, according to Sâyana, all Soma-sacrifices,-ekâhas, ahînas, sattras, &c. In this case we should perhaps translate, 'down to the Agnihotra,' that being the simplest kind of Somasacrifice.
This meaning is assigned by Sâyana to 'kalkushî' (=manibandhâratnî); it cannot mean here the two wrists' (? ‘kalyusha,' Mon. Will. Dict.), as both must be parts of the same limb.
Viz. X, 2, 2, 1. 5 (VI, I, I, I seq.).
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