[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v7.c95.295 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.295 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.295 - **Language:** English ### [v7.c95.295](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.295) Deussen without giving any reason asserts 'the names allow of the conjecture that in this case also a brāhmaṇa received instruction from a kṣatriya' (p. 18). He probably connected the first name with 'dhanus' (bow) which was the \*forte\* of kṣatriyas. But he forgets that Śaunaka and Śāṇḍilya are both brāhmaṇa names. This will illustrate how even the most profound scholar goes astray when he becomes over-enthusiastic about a theory of his. In this story Pravāhaṇa does not claim that the Udgīthavidyā was unknown among brāhmaṇas On the contrary he himself states that Śaunaka, a brāhmaṇa (called Atidhanvan) expounded that Vidyā to Udaraśāṇḍilya, another brāhmaṇa. Besides, Udgīthavidyā is only one among numerous upāsanās and what Pravāhaṇa teaches is that all \*bhūtas\* spring from Ākāśa and are absorbed in Ākāśa, the purport being that Ākāśa here denotes \*brahman\* as the V. S. (I. 1. 22) establishes. This doctrine is the same as the one taught in Tai. Up. III. 6 (basis of V. S. I. 12) and other texts. Moreover, there is nothing about transmigration in this passage of Chān. Up. - [Previous: v7.c95.294](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.294) - [Next: v7.c95.296](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.296) - [Up: v7.c95](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95) ## Linked texts (3) - [Taittirīyopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.taittiriya.3.6) — Sanskrit - [Brahmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.vedanta.brahmasutra.1.1.22) — Bādarāyaṇa, Sanskrit - [Chāndogyopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.295](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.295) · Pramāṇa