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EXAMINATION OF THE PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISION'. 1557
Tadanishchayāt –Because they could not be sure of people being Brāhmaṇas.-(3581)
Then again, the fact that Manu and others imparted their teachings to you alone does not redound to your credit; in fact, it only indicates the dullness of your intelligence.--This is pointed out in the following :
TEXTS (3582-3583). WE SUSPECT THAT Manu AND OTHER TEACHERS, FOR SOME REASON, CAME TO REALISE THAT WHAT IS STATED IN THE VEDA IS NOT QUITE REASONABLE AND NOT QUITE COMPREHENSIBLE BY ITSELF,---AND ALSO THAT THE BRAHMANAS, HAVING BECOME DULL-WITTED BY THE READING OF THE VEDA, WERE INCAPABLE OF DISCRIMINATING THINGS FOR THEMSELVES; AND IT WAS FOR THIS REASON THAT THEY EXPOUNDED THEIR TEACHINGS TO THE Brahmanas
ALONE.—(3582-3583)
COMMENTARY. Vedădhitijada -Those who have become "jada'-dull-witted by the 'adhiti'-reading-of the Veda; i.e. those whose powers of discriminating things had been set aside by the reading of the Veda.
For some reason'.-Somehow.-(3582-3583)
It was for this reason that Manu and others, realising the irrationality of the Veda, etc., declared, in reference to their own words, that they were to be regarded as so many commandments' (to be obeyed without question).This is what is shown in the following:
TEXTS (3584-3585). [THEY HAVE DECLARED THAT]—"THE Purana, THE Dharmashastra PROPOUNDED BY Manu, THE VEDA WITH ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AND THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE, THESE FOUR ARE SELF-SUFFICIENT COMMANDMENTS, AND SHOULD NEVER BE ATTACKED WITH REASONINGS", THIS THREAT, IN REGARD TO THE SELFSUFFICIENCY OF THEIR AUTHORITY, WE THINK, WAS PRONOUNCED BY THEM TO THE DULL-WITTED PEOPLE FOR THE SAME REASON. OR ELSE, HOW COULD A MERE VERBAL STATEMENT MAKE ANYTHING SELFSUFFICIENT IN ITS AUTHORITY ?
-(3584-3585)
COMMENTARY. Purana'-the literary works known under that name;- mänavo dharmaḥ - the code composed by Manu;—the Veda with its subsidiaries'
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