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place,' denotes mere evil-doers. That these do not, for the origination of a new body, depend on the fifth oblation, is seen from Scripture. For, in answer to the question 'Do you know why that world never becomes full?' the text says, 'On neither of these two ways are those small creatures continually returning, of whom it may be said, Live and die. This is the third place. Therefore that world never becomes full. As this passage states that in consequence of the third place' (i. e. the creatures forming a third class) not ascending to and descending from the heavenly world that world never becomes full, it follows that that third place does not, for the origination of bodies, depend on the fifth oblation. The clause, 'in the fifth oblation,' moreover, merely states that the connexion of water with the fifth fire is the cause of the water being called man' (i.e. becoming an embryo), but does not deny the origination of embryos in other ways; for the text contains no word asserting such a limitation.
19. It moreover is recorded, in the world.
Smriti, moreover, states that the bodies of some specially meritorious persons, such as Draupadi, Drishtadyumna, and others, were formed independently of the fifth oblation' (i. e. sexual union).
20. And on account of its being seen.
And it is seen in Scripture also, that the bodies of some beings originate independently of the fifth oblation : 'Of all beings there are indeed three origins only, that which springs from an egg, that which springs from a living being, that which springs from a germ' (Kh. Up. VI, 3, 1). It is observed that from among these beings those springing from a germ and those springing from heat originate without that fifth oblation. But the text quoted does not refer to the creatures springing from heat; for it says that there are three origins only 1-To this the next Satra replies.
21. The third term includes that which springs from heat.
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