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BRIHADARANYAKA-UPANISHAD.
8. Vagasaneya Yagñavalkya told the same to his pupil Madhuka Paingya, and said: 'If a man were to pour it on a dry stick, branches would grow, and leaves spring forth.
9. Madhuka Paingya told the same to his pupil Kala Bhagavitti, and said: 'If a man were to pour it on a dry stick, branches would grow, and leaves spring forth.'
10. Kala Bhagavitti told the same to his pupil Gânaki Âyasthûna, and said: 'If a man were to pour it on a dry stick, branches would grow, and leaves spring forth.'
11. Gânaki Âyasthana told the same to his pupil Satyakâma Gâbâla, and said: 'If a man were to pour it on a dry stick, branches would grow, and leaves spring forth.
12. Satyakama Gâbâla told the same to his pupils, and said: 'If a man were to pour it on a dry stick, branches would grow, and leaves spring forth.'
Let no one tell this to any one, except to a son or to a pupil 2.
13. Four things are made of the wood of the Udumbara tree, the sacrificial ladle (sruva), the cup (kamasa), the fuel, and the two churning sticks.
There are ten kinds of village (cultivated) seeds, viz. rice and barley (brîhiyavâs), sesamum and kidneybeans (tilamâshâs), millet and panic seed (anupriyangavas), wheat (godhůmâs), lentils (masûrâs), pulse (khalvâs), and vetches (khalakulâs ). After having 1 The Mantha-doctrine with the prânadarsana. Comm.
2 It probably means to no one except to one's own son and to one's own disciple. Cf. Svet. Up. VI, 22.
8 I have given the English names after Roer, who, living in India, had the best opportunity of identifying the various kinds of plants here mentioned. The commentators do not help us much. Sankara
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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 |