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SUTRA I. 3. 29.

अत एव च नित्यत्वम्॥१.३.२९॥

ata eva ca nityatvam ..1.3.29..

.. Ataeva, therefore, for this reason alone. .. Cha, and. …. Nityatvam, the eternity of the Veda.

29. And for this very reason, the eternity of the Veda is proved. — 93.

COMMENTARY

Thus the eternity of the Vedas is established, because, its words denote eternal types, (and not individuals), and because these words remind the creator of the types that he should create. The names like Kanaka, etc., do not mean that the Rishi called Katha was the author of the hymn, but that they were merely the utterers of those hymns, which exist from eternity.

Note: We find in the Vedas passages like the following:

«Reverence to the Rishis who are the makers of Mantras». It does not mean that any Rishi really made (he Mantras. Texts like these suggest to the mind of Brahma what should be the characteristics and powers of those Rishis who would make the different sections, hymns, and Mantras, and then Brahma creates them endowed with those characteristics and powers, and appoints them to remember the very same sections, hymns, etc. The Rishis being thus gifted by Prajapati with the requisite powers undergo suitable preparatory austerities and finally sec the mantras and so on, proclaimed by the Kathas and other Rishis of former ages of the world, perfect in all their sounds and accents, without having learnt them from the recitation of a teacher.

A further objection is raised. Let it be admitted that after each minor Pralaya or shorter dissolution (Naimittika) the Lord Brahma» ‘may create the bodies of Devas, etc., by remembering the words of the Vedas and the types mentioned therein, but in the case of the major Pralaya, called the great Latency (Prakritika) when Brahma himself vanishes, along with all world, how can then he create a new world on the basis of the Vedas, when the Vedas themselves vanish; and how can we speak of the eternity of the Veda? To this objection the author gives the following reply:

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