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Jinabhadra Gani's [The seventh तया, किमु प्रश्ने, मूर्ति-जराम् , अमृतमय॑स्येति-अमृतत्वं प्राप्तस्य मर्त्यस्य पुरेपस्येत्यर्थः, अमरणधर्मिणो मनुष्यस्य किं करिष्यन्ति जरा-व्याधधयः ? इति भावः। अत्रापि देवसत्तामतिपत्तिः। " को जानाति मायोपमान " इत्यादीनि तु देवाभावप्रतिपादकानि । अतस्तव संशयः। अयुक्ताश्चायम् , यतोऽमीषा बेदपदानामर्थ स्वं न जानासि, चशब्दाद् युक्तिं च न वेत्ति । एतेषां हिबेदपदानां नायमों यस्तवाभिप्रेतः, किन्त्वयम्,-वक्ष्यमाणपक्षण इति ॥ ३१८ ॥ (१८६६)
D. C-0 long-lived Maurya l your doubt about the existence of gods is due to your hearing various sentences of Vedas.
The sentences are such as — (1) “ Sa éşa yajināyudhi yajamāno'njasă svargalokam
gacchati " etc. (2) " Apāma somam amrita abhima agaman jyotiravidama
dévān kim nūnamasmāt triņavadarātih kimu murtimamriramartyasya " etc.
As well as, (3)“ Ko jānāti māyopamān girvāṇā-nindra-Yama-Varuņa
Kuberadim ? " etc.
According to you, interpretations of these sentences would be as follows:
(1) This host armed with the weapon of sacrifice reaches
the region of heaven immediately. ( This leads to
prove the existence of gods ) (2) By drinking soma, they became gods, went to heven,
and attained the divine status. These divinities will banish maladies and mortality by virtue of there ampitatava. ( These sentences are also used in support of the existence of divinities. )
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