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Vidyasankar Sundaresan vidya at CCO.CALTECH.EDU
Fri Aug 14 00:41:56 CDT 1998


Re: vedAdhyayana - the injunction is not that *only* one's own SAkhA
should be studied, but normally one makes a beginning with it. So, this is
not a restrictive injuction (niyama-vidhi) or an excluding injunction
(parisaMkhyA-vidhi). If it had been otherwise, it would be inconceivable
that SankarAcArya wrote commentaries on the upanishads of all four Vedas.
But there is always room for new precedent, dictated by exceptional
circumstances.

Vidyasankar



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