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127 Ill ADHYAYA, 3 BRAHMA2STA, 2. 1 27

blood and the seed are deposited in the water, where is then that person ?'

Y&£-#avalkya said : ' Take my hand, my friend. We two alone shall know of this ; let this question of ours not be (discussed) in public/ Then these two went out and argued, and what they said was karman (work), what they praised was karman 1 , viz. that a man becomes good by good work, and bad by bad work. After that G&ratkdrava Arta- bhiga held his peace.

Third BrAhmajva 2.

1. Then Bhu^yu Ldhyiyani asked. * Yd^/zavalkya/ he said, 'we wandered about as students 3, and came to the house of Pataw^ala Kapya. He had a daughter who was possessed by a Gandharva. We asked him, * Who art thou ?' and he (the Gandharva) replied : asked him about the ends of the world, we said to him, ' Where were the Pdrikshitas 4 ? Where then were the P&rikshitas, I ask thee, Y&g- wavalkya, where were the Pdrikshitas ?'
 * I am Sudhanvan, the Angirasa/ And when we

2. Yd^avalkya said : ' He said to thee, I suppose, that they went where those go who have performed a horse-sacrifice/

He said: 'And where do they go who have per- formed a horse-sacrifice ?' -

1 What is intended is that the sawsara continues by means of karman, while karman by itself never leads to moksha.

2 Madhyandina text, p.' 1070.

3 The commentator explains £araka^ as adhyayanarthaw vrata- foxzn&k ksxzk&h, adhvaryavo vl See Professor R. G. Bhandarkar, in Indian Antiquary, 1883, p. 145.

4 An old royal race, supposed to have vanished from the earth.

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