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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
(5) The order of performance of a sacrifice.
(6) Qualifications of a sacrificer, substitutes for sacrifices, etc., etc.
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(7) The transference of the ceremonies of one sacrifice to another.
(8) Further treatment of the subject of trans
ference.
(9) The adaptation of hymns, etc.
(10) The non-performance of rites, etc.
(11)
Repetition and combination of acts.
(12) The chief and subsidiary purposes of sacrificing, etc.
This abridged list of the contents of the Purva Mimansa should suffice to give you an idea of the subject matter dealt with. 1 shail not comment on this subject here; but shall only say that Jaimini does not believe in a god as creator or governor of the Universe, holding even that no judging divinity is necessary to determine the effect and to adjudge the degree of punishment and reward our actions,
of
which bear their fruit themselves.
"In order to explain this, Jaimini assumes that there was a result, viz. an invisible something, a kind of after stato of a deed or an invisible antecedent state of the result, something Apurra er miraculous, which represented the reward inherent in good works. And he adds, that
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