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thinking they would with that overcome the Asuras'Kh. Up.). In order therefore not to stultify this common beginning, we must assume that in the clause 'For them that breath sang out' (Bri. Up.), the Udgitha, which really is the object of the action of singing, is spoken of as the agent. Otherwise the term udgitha in the introductory passage ( by means of the Udgitha') would have to be taken as by implication denoting the agent (while directly it indicates the instrument).—Hence there is oneness of the two vidyas.-Of this view the next Sutra disposes.
7. Or not, on account of difference of subjectmatter; as in the case of the attribute of being higher than the high, and so on.
There is no unity of the two vidyas, since the subjectmatter of the two differs. For the tale in the Khåndogyatext, which begins when the Devas and the Asuras struggled together,' connects itself with the pranava (the syllable Om) which is introduced as the object of meditation in Khånd. I, 1, 1, 'Let a man meditate on the syllable Om as the Udgitha'; and the clause forming part of the tale, they meditated on that chief breath as Udgîtha,' therefore refers to a meditation on the pranava which is a part only of the Udgitha. In the text of the Vågasaneyins, on the other hand, there is nothing to correspond to the introductory passage which in the Khåndogya-text determines the subject-matter, and the text clearly states that the meditation refers to the whole Udgitha (not only the pranava). And this difference of leading subject-matter implies difference of matter enjoined, and this again difference of the character of meditation, and hence there is no unity of vidyâs. Thus the object of meditation for the Khandogas is the pranava viewed under the form of Prana; while for the Vågasaneyins it is the Udgåtri (who sings the Udgitha), imaginatively identified with Prana. Nor does there arise, on this latter account, a contradiction between the later and the earlier part of the story of the Vågasaneyins. For as a meditation on the Udgåtri neces
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