Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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II ADHYÂYA, 4 BRAHMANA, 12.
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cannot be seized externally (by themselves), but the sound is seized, when the drum is seized or the beater of the drum;
8. ‘And as the sounds of a conch-shell, when blown, cannot be seized externally (by themselves), but the sound is seized, when the shell is seized or the blower of the shell;
9. 'And as the sounds of a lute, when played, cannot be seized externally (by themselves), but the sound is seized, when the lute is seized or the player of the lute; p10. 'As clouds of smoke proceed by themselves out of a lighted fire kindled with damp fuel, thus, verily, O Maitreyi, has been breathed forth from this great Being what we have as Rig-veda, Yagurveda, Sâma-veda, Atharvângirasas, Itihâsa (legends), Purâna (cosmogonies), Vidyâ (knowledge), the Upanishads, Slokas (verses), Satras (prose rules), Anuvyâkhyânas (glosses), Vyâkhyānas (commentaries)". From him alone all these were breathed forth. P11. 'As all waters find their centre in the sea, all touches in the skin, all tastes in the tongue, all smells in the nose, all colours in the eye, all sounds in the ear, all percepts in the mind, all knowledge in the heart, all actions in the hands, all movements in the feet, and all the Vedas in speech, — ? 12. 'As a lump of salt?, when thrown into water, becomes dissolved into water, and could not be taken
§ 11 as probably a later insertion. The sa is not the pronoun, but a particle, as in sa yadi, sa ket, &c.
* B. adds, what is sacrificed, what is poured out, food, drink, this world and the other world, and all creatures. - ? See Khând. Up. VI, 13.
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