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III ADHYÂYA, 3 PÂDA, 65.
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i.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 Udgâtri sings.' This suggests that, as the abode of the vidya (viz. the Omkara) is common, the vidyås which abide in it are common also.—Or else the Satra may be explained as follows. If the udgitha and so on, which are matters qualifying the sacrificial action, were not all of them common to all sacrificial performances, the vidyås 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 udgitha and so on are common to all performances. As thus the abodes of the vidyas go together, the vidyâs abiding in them go together likewise.
65. (The meditations on members of sacrificial actions are) rather not (to be combined), as the text does not state their going together.
The words 'rather not' discard the pūrvapaksha. The meditations resting on members of actions are not to be treated like what they rest on, because scripture does not state their going together. Scripture actually states the going together of the Stotras and other subordinate members of sacrificial action which are enjoined in the three Vedas; cp. passages such as 'After the taking of the graha or the raising of the kamasa he performs the Stotra ;'' After the Stotra he recites; 'Prastotri sing the Saman ;' Hotri recite the Yagya for this ;' and so on. But, on the other hand, there are no analogous texts expressly teaching the going together of the meditations.But the going together of the meditations is established by those texts which intimate the successive performance of the different constituent members of a sacrifice !-By no means, we reply. The meditations subserve the end of man, while the texts referred to by you establish only the going together of the udgîtha and the like which subserve the purpose of the sacrifice. That the meditations on the udgitha and so on-although resting on
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| SR No. | 007682 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1894 |
| Total Pages | 2240 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 38 MB |