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matter, made in different places, are made with reference to the difference of students severally reading the several texts; for this holds good in those cases only where identical statements are made in different texts; while in the case under discussion two såkhas mention the abandonment of works, and one their passing over to other persons. Nor can you account for the difference of statement on the ground of difference of vidyas ; for you yourself maintain that the meditations in question form part of all meditations. This view the Satra impugns, but where the getting rid of is mentioned,'&c. Where a text mentions either the abandonment only of works or only their being obtained by others, both these matters must necessarily be combined, since the statement as to the works being obtained forms a supplement to the statement of their being abandoned. For the former statement declares the place to which the good and evil works, got rid of by him who knows Brahman, are transferred.-This supplementary relation of two statements the Satra illustrates by some parallel cases. A clause in the text of the Satyayanins, 'the kusas are the children of the udumbara tree,' forms a defining supplement to a more general statement in the text of the Kaushitakins, 'the kusas are the children of the tree. The clause, 'the metres of the gods are prior,' defines the order of the metres which in other texts mentioning the metres of the gods and Asuras' had been left undefined, and therefore forms a supplement to those texts. Analogous is the relation of the clause, 'he assists the stotra of the shodasin when the sun has half risen,' to the less definite statement 'he assists with gold the stotra of the shodasin ;' and the relation of the clause, 'the adhvaryu is not to sing,' to the general injunction all the priests join in the singing. Unless we admit that one statement, which defines some other more general statement, may stand to the latter in a supplementary relation, we are driven to assume an optional proceeding, and this is objectionable as long as there is any other way open; according to a principle laid down in the Parva Mimamsa (X, 8, 15). As the clauses referring to the abandonment of the works, and
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