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III ADHYAYA, 3 PÂDA, 64.
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of consisting of parna wood is the direct means of bringing about the result of no evil sound being heard; hence there is no valid reason why that quality should not be subordinate to the ladle, which itself is subordinate to the sacrifice; and as it is not legitimate to assume for the mere subordinate constituents of a sacrifice special fruits (other than the general fruit of the sacrifice), the declaration as to no evil sound being heard is to be viewed as a mere arthavada (i.e. a mere additional statement meant further to glorify the result of the sacrifice of which the ladle made of parna wood is a subordinate instrument).
64. And because (Scripture) shows it.
A scriptural text, moreover, shows that the meditation is necessary for, and restricted to, the sacrificial performance. For the text ‘A Brahman priest who knows this saves the sacrifice, the sacrificer, and all the officiating priests'which declares that all priests are saved through the knowledge of the Brahman-has sense only on the understanding that that knowledge is not restricted to the Udgåtri, and so on (i. e. not to those priests who are engaged in carrying out the details of the sacrifices which are the bases of the meditations).—The conclusion, therefore, is that those meditations are not restricted to the sacrifices, subordinate members of which serve as their 'bases.' This terminates the adhikarana of like the bases.'
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