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[SŪ. 1 4. 13.
236 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 3 ]
food, the mind of mind’ (Śat. Br. 14.7 2.21 ¹), these “five-people”
(pañca-jana) are to be known as the vital-breath and the rest.
Vedānta-kaustubha
To the question: Who, then, are the five-people, the author
replies here.
“On account of the complementary passage”, viz. ‘Those who
know the breath of breath, the eye of eye, the ear of ear, the mind of
mind’ (Śat. Br. 14 7 2.21), the vital-breath and the rest, five in num-
ber, having Brahman as their soul, and denoted by the term “five-
people”, are meant by the sacred text.
SŪTRA 13
“(THE NUMBER FIVE IS TO BE COMPLETED) BY LIGHT, FOOD BEING
NON-PRESENT (I.E. NOT MENTIONED) (IN THE TEXT) OF SOME”
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
“Food being non-present (i.e. non-mentioned)”, on the other
hand, in the complementary passage of the Kāṇvas ², the number
five is to be completed “by light”, mentioned in the beginning.
Vedānta-kaustubha
Apprehending the objection, viz. Let the vital-breath and the
rest, five in number, be the ‘five-people’ on the ground of the comple-
mentary passage, subsequent to the sacred text about the ‘five-people’
in the Mādhyandina branch. In the Kāṇva branch, too, there is a
text about the ‘five-people’. There the word ‘food’ is not found in
the complementary passage. Hence, how can the number five be
completed here?—the author replies here.
It has been said that the Mādhyandinas complete the number
five by means of food. But “there being the absence or non-mention
of food” in the reading “of some”, i.e. of the Kāṇvas, the number
five is completed “by light”, mentioned in the introductory passage:
‘That the gods worship as the light of lights’ (Bṛh 4.4.16),—this
¹ P. 1090, lines 5-6. Ś. R, Bh, ŚK, B.
² Viz. Bṛh. 4.4.18, which omits ‘annasya annam’.