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text enjoins the contemplations on Åditya and so on.— Nor can we accept the remark that Åditya and so on being meditated upon as udgitha, &c., assume thereby the nature of work and thus will be productive of fruit. For pious meditation is in itself of the nature of work, and thus capable of producing a result. And if the udgitha and so on are meditated upon as Aditya, &c., they do not therefore cease to be of the nature of work.-In the passage, 'This Saman is placed upon this Rik, the words 'Rik' and 'Saman'are employed to denote the earth and Agni by means of implication (lakshana), and implication may be based, according to opportunity, either on a less or more remote connexion of sense. Although, therefore, the intention of the passage is to enjoin the contemplation of the Rik and the Saman as earth and Agni, yet—as the Rik and the Saman are mentioned separately and as the earth and Agni are mentioned close by-we decide that, on the ground of their connexion with the Rik and Sâman, the words 'Rik' and 'Saman' are employed to denote them (i. e. earth and Agni) only. For we also cannot altogether deny that the word 'charioteer' may, for some reason or other, metaphorically denote a king.–Moreover the position of the words in the clause, Just this (earth) is Rik,' declares that the Rik is of the nature of earth; while if the text wanted to declare that the earth is of the nature of Rik, the words would be arranged as follows, this earth is just Rik.' Moreover the concluding clause, He who knowing this sings the Sâman,' refers only to a cognition based on a subordinate member (of sacrificial action), not to one based on the earth and so on.--Analogously in the passage, 'Let a man meditate (on) the fivefold Sâman in the worlds,' the worlds-although enounced in the locative case—have to be superimposed on the Saman, as the circumstance of the 'Saman' being exhibited in the objective case indicates it to be the object of meditation. For if the worlds are superimposed on the Saman, the Saman is meditated upon as the Self of the worlds; while in the opposite case the worlds would be meditated upon as the Self of the Saman. - The same remark applies to the passage, 'This Gåyatra
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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 |