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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
(AUGUST, 1921
When the severed portion of the land saw the blood of Töt-ta-rong, it felt hysterically sick at the sight, and in disgust again moved off and became Little Andaman Island ; at least, 80 say some travelled Nicobarese. 16 The body of poor Tot-ta-rong was turned into a rock, and strewed on the beach lies his hair, which the uninitiated think to be the decaying fallen leaves of the casuarina pine.
Meanwhile, the cleaving of the ground was going on, right up to the place whence the sound of the revelling came, and then and there, friends and lovers, husbands and wives, parents and children, were being parted asunder for ever; for some were on the land which remained here, and some on that which moved away.
Those left here had no relics of their friends, nothing to remind them of the dear ones who had been carried off. So they picked up the empty nuts which their friends had drunk, and put them in boxes and stowed them carefully away; and every now and then they would open the boxes and take out the empty nuts, and kiss them, and then put them back again, in sorrowful remembrance of the dear ones departed.
(To be continued.)
THE MIMAŃSÅ DOCTRINE OF WORKS. BY K. A. NILAKANTA SASTRY, M.A. (Continued from p. 220.)
No. III. (Šabarasvdmin on Jaimini VIII, 1, 34- Extract.) Now all this trouble is for propitiating the deity. The deity when pleased gives a man the fruit. Sruti says this-"Indra only when pleased himself pleases him with offspring and cattle". And that which has been known to be the method of pleasing Indra, the same has to be repeated whenever Indra has to be pleased . . . . We say here in reply)—this may be so, provided the fruit comes from the deity. But the fruit is from the sacrifice and Sruti says "He should sacrifice who desires heaven." As for "Indra only when pleased, etc.," we remark that the deity is mentioned in a secondary sense. The deity is part of (secondary to the sacrifice and it is said figuratively (lit. for praise) to be the giver, as for instanoe in (the statements) " The minister gave me the village", "The general gave me the village". Neither "minister" nor "general" but only the king is lord of the village. While the others are secondary, the talk about their giving is merely for praise (figurative)
No. IV. (Sabarasvdmin on Jaimini, III, 3, 44-Extract.) He (Pashan) has no share (in the Havis). Objection : That which is given to a deity must be the share of the deity. Reply: This is simply renounced with an indication of the deity (with the deity in the mind). Mere renunciation does not constitute the proprietorship of the deity, for the property-proprietor-relation can arise only from (the) acceptance of the thing renounced). And there is not the slightest evidence that the deity has accepted (it). For that which is got by one may be said to be his share. And the deity does not receive the Havis. Therefore, there is no Pushan's share. 15
* Little Andaman is many times larger than Car Nicobar, and some 50 miles distant from it.
« The printed text here gives no sense. I have corrected it with the aid of a manuscript belong. ing to Pandit A. Chinnaswami Batri of the College of Oriental Learning-B.H.U.
