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[SŪ. 3. 3. 33. 646 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 15 ] in the Sāma-veda, viz.: “May the fire promote the sacrifice” (Tāṇḍ. Br. 21.10.11 ¹) and so on, is recited in the low accent of the Yajur-veda. “That has been said,” viz: “If there be opposition between the subsidiary and the primary, there is connection of the Veda with the primary, because of the subserviency of that, (i.e of the subsidiary to the primary)”. (Pū. Mī. Sū. 3.3.9.²) Vedānta-kaustubha By the statement (made above) that the knowers abide (in this world) until the completion of their offices, it is indicated that the departure of such men also from the universe, consisting of the sentient and the non-sentient, is under the control of the Highest Person alone, different from the universe. Now (the author) points out that the attributes of non-grossness, non-atomicity and the rest of that very Highest Person,—the cause of the origin and the rest of the world, the controller of the sentient and the non- sentient, different in nature from the whole group of non-sentient objects which are seen to be possessed of grossness and from the group of sentient beings which are declared by Scripture to be atomic, and an ocean of natural, eternal and infinite mass of attri- butes,—are to be meditated on by the knower in all the meditations on Him. In the Bṛhadāraṇyaka, the answer given to Gārgī by Yājñavalkya is recorded thus: ‘ “That, verily, O Gārgī, the Brāhmaṇas call the Imperishable, non-gross, non-atomic, non-short, non-long, not red, not fluid, without shadow, without darkness, without air, without space, unassociated, tasteless, odourless, without eyes, without ears, without speech, without mind, without light, without breadth, without

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¹ P. 625, vol. 2. Ś, R, Bh, ŚK, B. ² P. 280. Ś, R, Bh, ŚK. The sense is that when the primary and the subsidiary belong to two different Vedas, the Vedic characteristic of the subsidiary is to be determined by the primary, because the subsidiary is subservient to the primary, i.e. because the performer takes up the performance of the subsidiary solely for the purpose of making the primary complete in all details. Vide Śab. B. on Pū. Mī. Sū. 3.3.9, pp. 280-281. Hence here the Sāma-veda mantras, instead of being recited in the loud accent of the Sāma-veda, are to be recited in the low accent of the Yajur-veda, since they form subordinate parts of a Yajur-vedic sacrifice, viz. Jāmadagnya-ahīna.