[Advaita-l] Query about a passage from taittirIya AranyakaM
Animesh
darkdevil114 at rocketmail.com
Fri Jan 16 13:31:55 CST 2015
SrI mAtre namaH ,
Namaste ,
While studying a vedic selection book ( named as 'Vedic Sanchayan' ) I came across following passage of taittirIya AranyakaM ( 2nd prashna 10th anuvaka )
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पञ्च॒ वा ए॒ते म॑हाय॒ज्ञास्स॑त॒ति .............॒ यथ्स्वाध्या॒यमधी॑यी॒तैका॑मप्यृ॒चय्यँजु॒- स्साम॑ वा॒ तद्ब्र॑ह्मय॒ज्ञस्सन्ति॑ष्ठते॒ यदृ॒चोऽधी॑ते॒ पय॑सः॒ कूल्या॑ अस्य पि॒तॄन्थ्स्व॒धा अ॒भिव॑हन्ति॒ यद्यजू॑षि घृ॒तस्य॑ कूल्या॒ यथ्सामा॑नि॒ सोम॑ एभ्यः पवते॒ यदथ॑र्वाङ्गि॒रसो॒ मधोः कूल्या॒ यद्ब्राह्म॒णानी॑तिहा॒सान्पु॑रा॒णानि॒ कल्पा॒न्गाथा॑ नाराश॒॒सीर्मेद॑सः॒ कूल्या॑ अस्य पि॒तॄन्थ्स्व॒धा अ॒भिव॑हन्ति॒ यदृ॒चोऽधी॑ते॒ पय॑आहुतिभिरे॒व तद्दे॒वास्त॑र्पयति॒ यद्यजू॑षि घृ॒ताहु॑तिभि॒र्यथ्सामा॑नि॒ सोमा॑हुतिभि॒र्यदथ॑र्वाङ्गि॒रसो॒ मध्वा॑हुतिभि॒र्यद्ब्राह्म॒णानी॑तिहा॒सान्पु॑रा॒णानि॒ कल्पा॒न्गाथा॑ नाराश॒॒सीर्मे॑दाहु॒तिभि॑रे॒व तद्दे॒वास्त॑र्पयति॒ त ए॑नन्तृ॒प्ता आयु॑षा॒ तेज॑सा॒ वर्च॑सा श्रि॒या यश॑सा ब्रह्मवर्च॒सेना॒न्नाद्ये॑न च तर्पयन्ति "
The translation was " If one studies one rik , one yaju , one sAma , one atharvangirasa mantra one's forefathers are benefited from rivers of milk , ghee , soma and honey ...... "
My question is do this one one rik , one yaju , one sAma , one atharvangirasa mantra means first mantra of rigveda , yajurveda , samaveda , atharvan veda or any mantra belonging to respective veda samhitas ?
Do this phrase ' one rik etc ' is Upalakshan for any mantra of respective samhitA or it conveys meaning 'of the first mantra of all vedas '.
( generally people recite the first mantra of four vedas in bramhayagyaM )
Another thing it also mentions benefit of studying ' brAhman , ItihAsa, purAna , kalpA , gAthA , nAramshasi gAthA '.
But generally there is restriction on chanting of nAramshas gAthAs .
taittrIya brAhman mentions "यद् ब्राह्मणः शमलमासीत | सा गाथा नारशंस्य भवत् | यद् अन्नस्य | सा सुरा || ( taittirIya brAhman 1.3.2.6 )
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Also kAThaka samhitA mentions "गाथा अनृतं नाराशंसी मत्तस्य न प्रतिगृह्य अनृतं हि मत्तो यदा हि .........." ( kAThaka samhitA 14.5 )
Please clarify .
Regards
Animesh
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