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III ADHYÂYA, I BRÂHMANA, 2.
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THIRD ADHYAYA.
First BRAHMANA? Adoration to the Highest Self (Paramâtman)!
1. Ganaka Vaideha (the king of the Videhas) sacrificed with a sacrifice at which many presents were offered to the priests of(the Asvamedha). Brâhmanas of the Kurus and the Pâñkalas had come thither, and Ganaka Vaideha wished to know, which of those Brâhmanas was the best read. So he enclosed a thousand cows, and ten pâdas (of gold) 2 were fastened to each pair of horns.
2. And Ganaka spoke to them: “Ye venerable Brâhmanas, he who among you is the wisest, let him drive away these cows.'
Then those Brahmanas durst not, but Yagñavalkya said to his pupil : 'Drive them away, my dear.'
He replied: 'O glory of the Sâman 3,' and drove them away.
The Brâhmanas became angry and said: 'How could he call himself the wisest among us?'
Now there was Asvala, the Hotri priest of Ganaka Vaideha. He asked him: 'Are you indeed the
Mâdhyandina text, p. 1067.
Palakaturbhậgah pâdah suvarnasya. Comm. * One expects iti after udaga, but Sâmasravas is applied to Yâgñavalkya, and not to the pupil. Yâgñavalkya, as the commentator observes, was properly a teacher of the Yagur-veda, but as the pupil calls him Sâmasravas, he shows that Yâgñavalkya knew all the four Vedas, because the Sâmans are taken from the Rig-veda, and the Atharva-veda is contained in the other three Vedas. Regnaud, however, refers it to the pupil, and translates, O toi qui apprends le Sâma-veda.'
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| SR No. | 007684 |
| Book Title | Vinaya Texts |
| 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 |