Footnotes

^240:1 The water, as mentioned before, or the five elements.

^240:2 Murti, for murtti, form, Colebrooke; a being of organised form, Roer; vrihiyavadirupa mushakadirupa ka murtih, i.e. vegetable food for men, animal food for cats, &c.

^240:3 Offered food, i.e. objects for the Devatas and the senses in the body.

^240:4 Atyagighamsat, atisayena hantum gantum aikkhat. Sayana.

^241:1 An attempt to derive vayu from vi, to get.

^241:2 Or, by which of the two ways shall I get in, the one way being from the top of the foot (cf. Ait. Ar. II, 1, 4, 1), the other from the skull? Comm.

^242:1 Passages like this must always have required an oral interpretation, but it is by no means certain that the explanation given in the commentaries represents really the old traditional interpretation. Sayana explains the three dwelling-places as the right eye, in a state of waking; as the throat, in a state of dreaming; as the heart, in a state of profound sleep. Sankara explains them as the right eye, the inner mind, and the ether in the heart. Sayana allows another interpretation of the three dwelling-places being the body of the father, the body of the mother, and one's own body. The three dreams or sleeps he explains by waking, dreaming, and profound sleep, and he remarks that waking too is called a dream as compared with the true awakening, which is the knowledge of Brahman. In the last sentence the speaker, when repeating three times 'this dwelling-place,' is supposed to point to his right eye, the throat, and the heart. This interpretation is supported by a passage in the Brahma-upanishad, Netre gagaritam vidyat kanthe svapnam samadiset, sushuptam hridayasya tu.