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The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c5.s3.t2.7

The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary c5.s3.t2.7

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c5.s3.t2.7

Vaitâlika's were afterwards wont to do]: 'Thou speakest [of me] as if I were Raikva with the car.'—'What is this—of Raikva with the car?'—'As to him who has won with the kṛita throw, the lower throws are also counted, so to him comes home all the good the creatures do; and he who knows what he knows, for him also is this true.'—Then went the steward forth to seek him. He came back and said 'I have not found him.'—He [Jânaçruti] spoke to him: 'Go seek him where a Brâhmaṇa [in the full sense, as Bṛih. 3, 5, 1. 3, 8, 10] is to be sought [in solitude, in the forest, on a sandbank, in the river, in a remote place,—as the scholiast explains].'—There sat one under his car, scratching his sores. To him he made obeisance saying: 'Art thou, venerable one, Raikva with the car?'—'I am verily he,' he answered.—The steward returned and said: 'I have found him.'—Then took Jânaçruti the grandson six hundred cows, a golden necklace, and a waggon with mules, and went to him and said: 'Raikva! here are six hundred cows, here is a golden necklace, here is a waggon with mules, teach me, venerable one, the Godhead whom thou worshippest.'—To him answered the other: 'Ha, ha! for a trinket and a yoke, thou Çûdra! keep them for thyself, with thy cows.'—Then took Jânaçruti the grandson again a thousand cows, a golden necklace, a waggon with mules and his daughter; he took them, and went to him and said: 'Raikva! here are a thousand cows, here is a golden necklace, here is a waggon with mules, here is a wife, here also is the village in which thou sittest;—teach me, venerable one!'-Then raised he her face [sunk in shame] and said: 'He has brought these [cows]; through this face alone, Çûdra, thou wouldst have made me speak.'—Those are the [villages] called Raikvaparṇa, in the country of the Mahâvṛisha's, where he dwelt [at his invitation] and he spoke to him."

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