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other, and therefore do not mutually suggest each other. The mere circumstance of all the particulars being connected with Brahman does not suffice to suggest vidyas occurring in other places; for even in vidyas which are avowedly separate, all the particulars may be connected with Brahman. And it is an established fact that Brahman, although one only, is, owing to the plurality of its powers, meditated upon in more than one way, as shown under Satra 7.—The conclusion therefore is that the attributes of holding together its powers and so on are not to be inserted in the Sandilya and similar vidyâs.
24. And as the record of others (viz. the Taittiriyaka) is not such as in the purusha-vidyâ (of the Khândogya), (the two purusha-vidyâs are not to be combined).
In the Rahasya-brâhmana of the Tåndins and the Paingins (the Khândogya) there is a vidyå treating of man, in which man is fancifully identified with the sacrifice, the three periods of his life with the three libations, his hunger and so on, with the dîkshâ, &c. And other particulars also are mentioned there, such as formulas of prayer, use of mantras and so on.-A similar fanciful assimilation of the sacrifice and man the Taittirîyakas exhibit, . For him who knows thus the Self of the sacrifice is the sacrificer, Faith is the wife of the sacrificer,' and so on (Taitt. År. X, 64).—The doubt here arises whether the particulars of the man-sacrifice given in the Khandogya are to be inserted in the Taittirîyaka or not.
Against the view of the parvapakshin that they are so to be inserted because in both places we have a purushayagña, we maintain that they are not to be inserted because the characteristics of the purusha-yagña of the K handogas are not recognised in the Taittirîya-text. This the Satrakâra expresses by saying, 'As (the record of the followers of some Sâkhås, viz. the Tandins and Paingins, is) in the purusha-vidyâ, not such is the record of others,' viz. the Taittiriyakas. For the latter exhibit an identification of man with the sacrifice, in which the wife, the sacrificer, the
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| SR No. | 007681 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 01 |
| 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 |