Tree first sits facing the east the second sits to the souleast of him facing the north while the third may sit either on the right side of the second facing the north like him or to the north-east of the first facing the son QA so that in that case the three Brahmans form a. triangle. [...] the fathers are descried as avare' `madhyamah ' and parasab' meaning the lower the middle and the highest or the most ancient fathers.' These are stated to be located the first on the earth itself the second in the middle region antariksha {the atmospheric region reaching up to the highest clouds) and the third in the sky on high. [...] The fact that out of the two paths of nivritti-marga or asceticism and pravritti-marga or worldly life the former represented by Sanatkumata and the latter by the seven patriarchs the former is given the place of honour as the first son of Brahma reveals the hand of the Vedantic philosopher in this story. [...] Sp when the reason of scholaticism created doubts about the ability of the ancestors many of them possibly migrating in mortal bodies to be present at the Sraddha and confer boons on their sons the three classes of the Devas of the same three regions seem to have been Itilized as the superintending Deities of the Sraddha capable of receiving the offerings on behalf of elle ancestors and of [...] The upanayana is the initiation of the boy to the study of the Vedas making him a dvija twice-born and it is very appropriate that on that occasion and also on the occasion of his entering the state of householder by marriage the blessings of the fathers who in their life Studied the Vedas and then fulfilled their duties as households should be sought for first of all by means of trie Nandi-sr
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