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[sū. 3. 4. 20. ADH. 1.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 733 sacrificial faggot below (the ladle). He holds it above for the gods" (Āp. Ś.S. 9.11.8-9)—here though occurring in the same sentence with the holding of the faggot below the ladle, the holding of the faggot, by separating it, over the clarified butter placed in a ladle is enjoined because of being something new (not enjoined before),¹— so here too. It has been said in the section treating of what is com- plimentary (action): "But (there is) an injunction with regard to the holding, on account of being something new" (Pū. Mī. Sū. 3.4.3²). Although with regard to this stage of life, there is an injunction cele- brated in a text of the Jābāla, viz "Having completed the life of a religious student, let one become a house-holder. Having become a house-holder, let one become a dweller in the forest. Having become a dweller in the forest, let one wander forth. Or else, let one wander forth from the very life of a religious student, or from the house, or from the forest. The day one gets indifferent to the world, let him wander forth on that very day" (Jābāla 4),—yet it is shown by his Holiness that the other stage of life occurs in other texts as well irrespective of that,—this is to be understood here. The texts, viz. "He who extinguishes the fire is the slayer of the hero of the gods" (Tait. Sam. 1.5.2). "After having brought an acceptable gift for the teacher, let him not cut off the line of progeny" (Tait. I. 11), "One who is childless does not possess the world" (Ait. Br. 33.1) and so on, are concerned with people hankering after enjoyment. Hence it is established that the end of men arises from knowledge. Here ends the section entitled "The end of Men" (1). COMPARISON Baladeva He continues here the same topic, viz. whether a knower of Brah- man must work or not. Hence the sūtra: "Or (the text designating ¹ I.e. the above passage may be conceived as a coherent and unbroken whole if we take it to be referring to one thing only, viz the holding of the faggot below. Nevertheless, we conceive it as enjoining the holding of the faggot above too, since this latter is not enjoined anywhere else. ² The sūtra really reads: "Vidhīstu apūrvatvāt syāt".