Questions of King Milinda Part 02

SR No.: 007682
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

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III ADHYAYA, 4 PÂDA, 28.
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passage under discussion cannot be an anuvada referring to it. The case is analogous to that of passages such as
therefore Pashan 1 receives a well-crushed share of food. for he is toothless.' There also no injunction is directly stated; but as the matter of the passage is new we assume an injunction and understand that the grains for Pashan are to be crushed at all vikritis of the darsapürnamåsa: as was explained in the Parva Mîmamsa.
An analogous conclusion was arrived at under Satra 20.-Smritis also such as the Bhagavadgità explain that sacrifices and the like if undertaken without a view to their special results become for him who is desirous of final release a means of knowledge. Hence sacrifices and the like, on the one hand, and calmness of mind and so on, on the other hand, according to the asramas, i.e. all works enjoined on the asramas must be had regard to with a view to the springing up of knowledge. Calmness of mind, &c., are, on account of the expression he who knows this' connecting them with knowledge, to be viewed as approximate-direct-means of knowledge, while sacrifices and so on which scripture connects with the search of knowledge are to be looked upon as remote-indirect-means.
28. And there is permission of all food, (only) in the case of danger of life; on account of this being shown (by scripture).
In the colloquy of the prânas the Khandogas record, 'To him who knows this there is nothing which is not food' (Kh. Up. V, 1,2); and the Vågasaneyins, 'By him nothing is eaten that is not food, nothing is received that is not food' (Bri. Up. VI, 1, 14). The sense of the two passages is that anything may be eaten by him.-A doubt here arises whether the texts enjoin the permission of eating anything
1 The passage quoted occurs in the Veda under the heading of the darsapürnamâsa. But as Pashan has no share in the fundamental form of that sacrifice, we conclude that the injunction implied in the passage is valid for those vikritis of the darsapurnamasa in which offerings are made to Pashan.
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