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[SŪ. 3. 3. 33.
646 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 15 ]
in the Sāma-veda, viz.: “May the fire promote the sacrifice” (Tāṇḍ.
Br. 21.10.11 ¹) and so on, is recited in the low accent of the Yajur-veda.
“That has been said,” viz: “If there be opposition between the
subsidiary and the primary, there is connection of the Veda with the
primary, because of the subserviency of that, (i.e of the subsidiary to
the primary)”. (Pū. Mī. Sū. 3.3.9.²)
Vedānta-kaustubha
By the statement (made above) that the knowers abide (in this
world) until the completion of their offices, it is indicated that the
departure of such men also from the universe, consisting of the
sentient and the non-sentient, is under the control of the Highest
Person alone, different from the universe. Now (the author) points
out that the attributes of non-grossness, non-atomicity and the
rest of that very Highest Person,—the cause of the origin and the
rest of the world, the controller of the sentient and the non-
sentient, different in nature from the whole group of non-sentient
objects which are seen to be possessed of grossness and from the
group of sentient beings which are declared by Scripture to be
atomic, and an ocean of natural, eternal and infinite mass of attri-
butes,—are to be meditated on by the knower in all the meditations
on Him.
In the Bṛhadāraṇyaka, the answer given to Gārgī by Yājñavalkya
is recorded thus: ‘ “That, verily, O Gārgī, the Brāhmaṇas call the
Imperishable, non-gross, non-atomic, non-short, non-long, not red,
not fluid, without shadow, without darkness, without air, without
space, unassociated, tasteless, odourless, without eyes, without ears,
without speech, without mind, without light, without breadth, without

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¹ P. 625, vol. 2. Ś, R, Bh, ŚK, B.
² P. 280. Ś, R, Bh, ŚK.
The sense is that when the primary and the subsidiary belong to two different
Vedas, the Vedic characteristic of the subsidiary is to be determined by the
primary, because the subsidiary is subservient to the primary, i.e. because the
performer takes up the performance of the subsidiary solely for the purpose
of making the primary complete in all details. Vide Śab. B. on Pū. Mī. Sū. 3.3.9,
pp. 280-281. Hence here the Sāma-veda mantras, instead of being recited in
the loud accent of the Sāma-veda, are to be recited in the low accent of the
Yajur-veda, since they form subordinate parts of a Yajur-vedic sacrifice, viz.
Jāmadagnya-ahīna.