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[SŪ. 1. 3. 38. ADH. 9.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 203 SŪTRA 38 “ON ACCOUNT OF THE PROHIBITION OF HEARING, STUDYING, AND (LEARNING) THE MEANING (OF THE VEDA), (A ŚŪDRA IS NOT ENTITLED TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF BRAHMAN).” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha A Śūdra is not entitled to the knowledge of Brahman, “on account of the prohibition of the hearing” and so on of the Veda on his part, in the text ‘One should not study (the Veda) in the vicinity of a Śūdra’ (V.Sm 18.9 ¹) and so on. Vedānta-kaustubha For this reason, too, a Śūdra is not entitled to the knowledge of Brahman. For what reason? “On account of the prohibition of hearing” and the rest on the part of a Śūdra, in the passage ‘A cemetery, endowed with feet, is, verily, a Śūdra ² Hence one should not study (the Veda) in the vicinity of a Śūdra’ (V Sm 18.9), ‘Hence a Śūdra is a beast,³ not fit for sacrifices’ and on so. The sense (of the first passage) is. A ‘cemetery’ that is ‘endowed with feet’, i.e. capable of moving, ‘is a Śūdra’, in whose presence one should not even study the Vedas. The sense is that the hearing of the Veda, the study of it, the performance of the religious duties mentioned therein, are prohibited, all the more, to a Śūdra. COMPARISON Śaṁkara, Bhāskara and Baladeva They treat this sūtra and the next as one sūtra ⁴

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¹ P 216, line 20. Ś, R, Bh, ŚK, B. ² Reading slightly differs, viz. ‘Eka vai tac-chmaśānaṁ . . .’ (p. 216). ³ ‘Bahu-paśuḥ paśu sadṛśa iti arthaḥ.’ Śrī. B. 1.3.38, p. 339, Part I. ⁴ Ś B. 1 3 38, p. 376; Bh. B. 1 3.38, p. 68; G B. 1.3 38