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618 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA [SŪ. 3. 3. 24. ADH. 9.] Adhikaraṇa 9 The section entitled "The me- ditation on the Person". (Sūtra 24) SŪTRA 24 “AND EVEN IN THE MEDITATION ON THE PERSON (THERE IS NO TRANSFERENCE OF ATTRIBUTES), ON ACCOUNT OF OTHERS BEING NOT RECORDED” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha As “even in the meditation on the person”,—recorded in the Chāndogya thus: “The person, verily, is a sacrifice” (Chānd. 3 16.1 ¹) and in the manual of the Taittirīyas thus: “For him who knows thus” (Tait. Ār. 10 64; ² Mahānār. 25.1),—the details mentioned in one place, viz. “His twenty-four years are the morning libation” (Chānd. 3.16.1), are not recorded in another, so the vidyās are different. Vedānta-kaustubha Previously, in accordance with the reason (stated in Br. Su. 3. 3 21): ‘On account of difference’, the meditation on (Brahman) as endowed with the attributes like holding together and so on was demonstrated to be different from the meditations on Brahman as taught by Śāṇḍilya and others. Now, by showing the difference of the meditations on the person, (the author) is removing the doubt that in the case of meditations on the person, the meditations are identical on account of the non-difference of names and the rest. The meditation on the person is recorded in the Chāndogya in the Rahasya-brāhmaṇa of the Tāṇḍins and the Paiṅgins thus: “The person, verily, is a sacrifice. His twenty-four years are the morning libation” (Chānd. 3 16.1), “Now the forty-four years are the mid-day libation” (Chānd. 3.16.3), “Now the forty-eight years are the third libation” (Chānd. 3.16.5) and so on. In the manuals of the Taitti- rīyas too, there is a meditation on the person in the first section: “For him who knows thus, the soul of the sacrifice is the sacrificer, faith his wife, his body the fuel, his breast the sacrificial altar, his body-hairs the sacrificial grass” (Tait. Ār. 10.64; Mahānār. 25.1). Here the doubt is as to whether the meditations recorded in the two places are different or identical. If it be suggested that on account ¹ R, ŚK. ² P. 779. Ś, R, Bh, ŚK.