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[sū. 3. 1. 2. ADH. 1.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 477 that offering Soma, the king, arises ’ ” (Chānd. 5.4.2) and so on, establishes that water alone, offered to the heaven-world and so on, becomes denotable by that term thus ‘ “In the fifth oblation water comes to have the speech of man” ’ (Chānd 5.9.1). The sense is this : ‘The gods’, i. e. the vital-breaths which are the associates of the individual soul, ‘offer’, i. e. throw, ‘reverence’ to the heaven-world, imagined as fire, and that is transformed into an immortal body, called ‘Soma, the king’. Those very gods offer that body to the fire of cloud; and that body, offered thereto, becomes rain. The very same gods offer that rain to the fire of earth, and that, offered thereto, assumes the form of food. The very same gods offer that food to the fire of person; and offered thereto, that food assumes the form of semen. The very same gods offer that semen to the fire of woman, and that semen, offered thereto, becomes an embryo and obtains the name of a person. In this way, water comes to attain the name of a person. Although acquainted with all this, the king Pravāhaṇa, having put to Śvetaketu the questions about the goal of workers, asked this too thus: ‘Do you know how in the fifth oblation water comes to have the speech of man?’ (Chānd. 5.3.3). Thus asked, Śvetaketu, approaching his father Gautama, said. ‘I have been asked thus by the king, I do not know its answer’. Gautama, himself not knowing it, approached the king and said : ‘Impart that knowledge to us’ Thereupon the king answered Gautama. From such question and answer, it is definitely ascertained that the individual soul goes to another body as closely embraced indeed by the invisible subtle elements. SŪTRA 2 “BUT ON ACCOUNT OF (WATER) CONSISTING OF THE THREE (ELEMENTS), ON ACCOUNT OF PREPONDERANCE.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha Since water consists of the three elements in accordance with the scriptural text about tripartition,¹ the other two are also to be understood here. The mention of water only, on the other hand, fits in on account of its preponderance. ¹ Vide Chānd. 6.3.3. See Br. Sū. 2.4.19–21.