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Injunctions of this kind differ from injunctions such as 'he is to bring water in the godohana vessel for him who desires cattle'; for the latter state a special qualification on the part of him who performs the action, while the former do not, and hence cannot claim independence. On account of rectification.
A doubt arises whether meditations such as the one enjoined in the text, 'Let him meditate on the syllable Om as the Udgitha, which are connected with constituent elements of the sacrifice such as the Udgitha, contribute towards the accomplishment of the sacrifice, and hence must be performed at the sacrifice as part of it; or whether they, like the godohana vessel, benefit the agent apart from the sacrifice, and therefore may be undertaken according to desire.
This the Sutra means when saying, 'for separate is non-obstruction. As thus those meditations also which refer to auxiliary members of sacrifices have their own results, they may or may not be combined with the sacrifices, according to wish. Their case is like that of the godohana vessel which, with the view of obtaining a certain special result, may be used instead of the kamasa.
Their case is by no means analogous to that of the godohana vessel, for, while in the case of the latter, the text expressly declares the existence of a special result, 'For him who is desirous of cattle he is to bring water in a godohana, the texts enjoining those meditations do not state special results for them.
For the godohana vessel serves to bring water, and this of course none else can do but the Adhvaryu; while a meditation on the Udgitha as being the essence of all essences can very well be performed by the Sacrificer true though it be that the Udgitha itself can be performed by the Udgatri priest only. Against this view the next Sutra declares itself.
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