Brahma Sutras (Shankaracharya)
by George Thibaut | 1890 | 203,611 words
English translation of the Brahma sutras (aka. Vedanta Sutras) with commentary by Shankaracharya (Shankara Bhashya): One of the three canonical texts of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. The Brahma sutra is the exposition of the philosophy of the Upanishads. It is an attempt to systematise the various strands of the Upanishads which form the ...
III, 1, 19
19. It is, moreover, recorded in the (ordinary) world.
There are, moreover, traditions, apart from the Veda, that certain persons like Droṇa, Dhṛṣṭadyumna, Sītā, Draupadī, &c., were not born in the ordinary way from mothers. In the case of Droṇa and others there was absent the oblation which is made into the woman; while in the case of Dhṛṣṭadyumna and others, even two of the oblations, viz. the one offered into woman and the one offered into man, were absent. Hence in other cases also birth may be supposed to take place independently of the number of oblations.--It is, moreover, commonly known that the female crane conceives without a male.