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III ADHYÂYA, 3 BRÂHMANA, 2.
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blood and the seed are deposited in the water, where is then that person ?'
Yagñavalkya said: 'Take my hand, my friend. We two alone shall know of this; let this question of ours not be (discussed in public. Then these two went out and argued, and what they said was karman (work), what they praised was karman, viz. that a man becomes good by good work, and bad by bad work. After that Gâratkârava Artabhâga held his peace.
THIRD BRAHMANA? 1. Then Bhugyu Lahyâyani asked. “Yâgñavalkya,' he said, 'we wandered about as students, and came to the house of Patañkala Kâpya. He had a daughter who was possessed by a Gandharva. We asked him, 'Who art thou?' and he (the Gandharva) replied: 'I am Sudhanvan, the Angirasa.' And when we asked him about the ends of the world, we said to him, 'Where were the Pârikshitas 4? Where then were the Pârikshitas, I ask thee, Yâgñavalkya, where were the Pârikshitas ?'
2. Yâgñavalkya said: 'He said to thee, I suppose, that they went where those go who have performed a horse-sacrifice.'
He said : ‘And where do they go who have performed a horse-sacrifice ?'.
1 What is intended is that the samsara continues by means of karman, while karman by itself never leads to moksha.
2 Mâdhyandina text, p. 1070.
$ The commentator explains karakâh as adhyayanârtham vratakaranâk karakâh, adhvaryavo vâ. See Professor R. G. Bhandarkar, in Indian Antiquary, 1883, p. 145.
* An old royal race, supposed to have vanished from the earth.
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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 |