Kunte, M. M. The vicissitudes of Åryan civilization in India

(Bombay :  Printed at the Oriental Print. Press,  1880.)

Tools


 

Jump to page:

Table of Contents

  Page [519]  



APPENDICES:
 

SUMMARIES
taken from the Shaddarshana Chintanikd,  and explanatory ef ,
statements made in this Work:
 

APPENDIX A..

DESCEIBING THE AGNI^TOMA-SACEIFICE   REFERRED TO
IN tfHE 154H page! OF THIS -WORE.
 

SUMMARY.
 

In this Summary the subjects treated of iii the last
chapter (Pada) are to be examined from t'wo different points
of view—one, philosophical, bearing on exegetics, and the
other, historical, bearing on those practices and customs of
the ancient Aryas 'which are introduced into this discussion
by way of illustration, Jaimini at first discusses the
aUthoritativeness of the Scriptures recognised by the Aryas,
next solves the problem whether the Scriptures are personal
or impersonal in the sense of being revealed by an inspired
person or being themselves eternal, and answers the follow¬
ing questions :-^What is -word ? What is the relationship
between a 'word and its sense ? Is the sense of a word
conveyed to the mind through the medium of a generic name
or by jneans of an individual ? What are the senses of the
different case-terminations of a noun ? How is a sentence
formed by putting together a number of 'words ? Why are
all the words in a sentence to be  connected 'with its verb 1
  Page [519]