ADHYÂYA II.

Pâda I.

Pâda II.

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Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of
the Sacred Books of the East.

[Transcriber's Note: This book contains many words with one or two
letters in the word printed in italics; those letters are transcribed by
enclosing them in slashes, e.g. "karmakâ/nd/a" has the letters "nd" in
italics. Also, the symbol "@" is used before the letter "n" to indicate
a horizontal bar across the top.]




INTRODUCTION.


To the sacred literature of the Brahmans, in the strict sense of the
term, i.e. to the Veda, there belongs a certain number of complementary
works without whose assistance the student is, according to Hindu
notions, unable to do more than commit the sacred texts to memory. In
the first place all Vedic texts must, in order to be understood, be read
together with running commentaries such as Sâya/n/a's commentaries on