Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s2.413

v2.c4.s2.413

The technical name for study is Svādhyāya: the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa is eloquent upon its advantages,⁷³ and it is asserted that the joy of the learned Śrotriya, or ‘student,’ is equal to the highest joy possible.⁷⁴ Nāka Maudgalya held that study and the teaching of others were the true penance (*tapas*).⁷⁵ The object was the ‘threefold knowledge’ (*trayī vidyā*), that of the Ṛc, Yajus, and Sāman,⁷⁶ a student of all three Vedas being called *tri-śukriya* 77 or *tri-śukra*,⁷⁸ ‘thrice pure.’ Other objects of study are enumerated in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa,⁷⁹ in the Taittirīya Āraṇyaka,⁸⁰ the Chāndogya Upaniṣad,⁸¹ etc. (See Itihāsa, Purāṇa; Gāthā, Nārāśamsī; Brahmodya; Anuśāsana, Anuvyākhyāna, Anvākhyāna, Kalpa, 2. Brāhmaṇa; Vidyā, Kṣatravidyā, Devajanavidyā, Nakṣatravidyā, Bhūtavidyā, Sarpavidyā; Atharvāṅgirasaḥ, Daiva, Nidhi, Pitrya, Rāśi; Sūtra, etc.)