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V ADHYÂYA, 15 BRÂHMANA, 2.
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one and says, ' May he not obtain this,' or May this wish not be accomplished to him,' then that wish is not accomplished to him against whom he thus prays, or if he says, ' May I obtain this.'
8. And thus Ganaka Vaideha spoke on this point to Budila Åsvatarâsvil: 'How is it that thou who spokest thus as knowing the Gâyatri, hast become an elephant and carriest me?' He answered : 'Your Majesty, I did not know its mouth. Agni, fire, is indeed its mouth; and if people pile even what seems much (wood) on the fire, it consumes it all. And thus a man who knows this, even if he commits what seems much evil, consumes it all and becomes pure, clean, and free from decay and death.'
FIFTEENTH BRÂHMANA. 1. 2 The face of the True (the Brahman) is covered with a golden disk 3. Open that, O Pashan 4, that we may see the nature of the True 6.
2. O Pashan, only seer, Yama (judge), Sarya (sun), son of Pragâpatio, spread thy rays and gather them!
tishthate is rightly explained by Dvivedaganga, yadartham evam upatishthate.
1 Asvatarasyâsvasyâpatyam, Sankara.
? These verses, which are omitted here in the Mâdhyandina text, are found at the end of the Vâgasaneyi-upanishad 15-18. They are supposed to be a prayer addressed to Aditya by a dying person.
8 Mahîdhara on verse 17: The face of the true (purusha in the sun) is covered by a golden disk.' Sankara explains here mukha, face, by mukhyam svarūpam, the principal form or nature.
• Pashan is here explained as a name of Savitri, the sun; likewise all the names in the next verse.
5 Cf. Maitr. Up. VI, 35. . • Of Isvara or Hiranyagarbha.
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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 |