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580 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA [SŪ. 3. 3. 3. ADH. 1.] SŪTRA 3 "BECAUSE (THE HEAD-RITE IS A SUBSIDIARY PART) OF THE STUDY OF THE VEDA (AND NOT OF VIDYĀ), (IT) BEING SO (THERE IS) THAT RESTRICTION, (BECAUSE IT IS MENTIONED TO BE SO) IN THE SAMĀCĀRA, AND BECAUSE OF THE TOPIC, AND AS IN THE CASE OF LIBATIONS." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha And that head-rite too, which is mentioned in the text of the followers of the Atharva-veda thus: "Let one declare this knowledge of Brahman to them alone by whom, however, the head-rite has been performed according to rules" (Muṇḍ 3 2.10 ¹), does not prove that the vidyās are different, since the head-rite is enjoined as a subsidiary part of the study of the Veda. It being a subsidiary part of the Vedic study, is not performed by any one other than a follower of the Atharva-veda, and hence there is "that restriction".² Since in the book called "Samācāra" too they record the head-rite as a Vedic rite, and since there is a text: "One who had practised the vow does not read this" (Muṇḍ. 3.2.11 ³), that restriction is indeed appropriate, as it is in the case of oblations, beginning with the Sauryya Vedānta-kaustubha If the rite of carrying a pot of burning charcoals on the head, taught as a sacred duty in the text of the followers of the Atharva- veda thus: "Let one declare the knowledge of Brahman to them alone by whom, however, the head-rite has been performed according to rules" (Muṇḍ. 3.2 10), were a subsidiary part of the vidyā, then only we could have said that the vidyās are different. But as it is not a subordinate part of vidyā, we cannot do so.⁴ The word "because" states the reason, i.e. because the sacred duty called 'head- rite' is a subsidiary part "of the study of the Veda" alone, and not of the vidyā stated in it. "(It) being so," i.e. the head-rite being a subsidiary part of the study of the Veda, there is "that restriction", i.e. the restriction with regard to the teaching of ¹ Ś, R, Śk. ² Viz. that only those who have performed the head-rite are entitled to the knowledge of Brahman. ³ Ś, R, Bh, Śk. ⁴ This answers the prima facie view mentioned above under V.K. 3.3.1.