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vidyâs are permanently connected with the acts in the same way as the circumstance of being made of parna-wood is permanently connected with all sacrifices in which the guha (the sacrificial ladle) is used; or if they are nonpermanent like the vessel called godohanal. The pūrvapakshin maintains that the meditations are permanently connected with the sacrificial acts, because they also are comprised within the scriptural enouncements concerning performances. For they also do not stand under some special heading ?, and as they are connected with the sacrifice through the udgîtha and so on, they combine themselves, like other subordinate members, with the scriptural statements as to the performance of the sacrifice
If against the doctrine of the meditations forming permanent parts of the sacrificial performances it should be urged, that in the chapters containing them special results are mentioned (which seem to constitute the meditations into independent acts), as e.g. in the passage, ‘he indeed becomes a fulfiller of desires' (Kh. Up. I, 1, 7); we reply that those statements of results being given in the text in the present form only (not in an injunctional form), are mere
| The question is raised whether the meditations, enjoined in the Upanishads, on certain parts or elements of sacrificial acts, are permanently connected with the latter, i.e. are to be undertaken whenever the sacrificial act is performed, or not. - In the former case they would stand to the sacrifice in the same relation as the parnamayîtva, i.e. the quality of being made of parna-wood, does. Just as the latter is connected with the sacrifice by means of the guhů—the sacrificial ladle,-so the meditation on the syllable Om, e.g. would be connected with the sacrifice by means of that syllable. -In the latter case, i.e. in the case of being connected with the sacrifice on certain occasions only, the upâsana is analogous to the godohana-vessel which is used in the darsapürnamâsa-sacrifice instead of the usual kamasa, only if the sacrificer specially wishes for cattle.See Pä. Mi. SQ. III, 6, 1; IV, 1, 2.
% Like the statement about the parnamayitva of the guhd which the sacred text does not exhibit under some particular prakarana, but ex abrupto as it were ; on which account it is to be connected with the sacrifice in general.
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