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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III ADHYÂYA, 9 BRÂHMANA, 1.
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that sees but it, nothing that hears but it, nothing that perceives but it, nothing that knows but it. In that Akshara then, O Gârgi, the ether is woven, like warp and woof.'
12. Then said Gârgt: 'Venerable Brâhmans, you may consider it a great thing, if you get off by bowing before him. No one, I believe, will defeat him in any argument concerning Brahman.' After that Vâkaknavi held her peace.
Ninth BRÂHMANA 1. 1. Then Vidagdha Sâkalya asked him2: 'How many gods are there, O Yâgñavalkya ?' He replied with this very Nivid 3: 'As many as are mentioned in the Nivid of the hymn of praise addressed to the Visvedevas, viz. three and three hundred, three and three thousand
“Yes,' he said, and asked again : 'How many gods are there really, O Yagñavalkya ?'
Thirty-three,' he said.
1 Mâdhyandina text, p. 1076.
% This disputation between Yâgñavalkya and Vidagdha Sâkalya occurs in a simpler form in the Satapatha-brâhmana, XI, p. 873. He is here represented as the first who defies Yâgñavalkya, and whom Yågñavalkya asks at once, whether the other Brâhmans had made him the ulmukavakshayana, the cat's paw, literally one who has to take a burning piece of wood out of the fire (ardhadagdhakâshtham ulmukam; tasya vahirnirasanam avakshayanan vinâsah). The end, however, is different, for on asking the nature of the one god, the Prâna, he is told by Yâgñavalkya that he has asked for what he ought not to ask, and that therefore he will die and thieves will carry away his bones.
Nivid, old and short invocations of the gods; devatâsankhyavâkakâni mantrapadâni kânikid vaisvadeve sastre sasyante. Sankara and Dvivedaganga.
* This would make 3306 devatâs.
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