V. 6.] PRASNOPANISH AD-BEASEYA 47 sah: the person meditating by the two momented-syllable antarikşam: sky. It is held in the iksatikarmādhikarana (1. 3. 12) that the words antariksa and somaloka (sky and the lunar world) signifying all those worlds that are above,' indicate what takes place after death. Accordingly it is stated in the Sri Bhāşya in the Iksatikarmähdikarana tbus: "Dividing into two as this worldly and other worldly what was mentioned already as the inferior effected (kāryam) Brahman), stating that those who meditate on OM of one moment get the result of the form of enjoyment in this human world, and stating that those who meditate on the OM of two moments have the result of the form of enjoy. ment in the other world indicated through secondary significance by the word 'sky (Sri Bhāşya I. iii. 12). somaloke: in the lunar world, i.e., having enjoyed in the other world, he returns to birth) at the end of (or after exhau sting) the fruits of his good deeds. 12 V. 5. Yah punar etam trimātrenomityetenaivāk- şarena param puruşam abhidhyāyita sa tejasi sürye sampannah). Yatha padodaras tvacă vinirmucyata evam ha vai sa papmană vinirıuktaļ sasāmabhirunniyat: brahma. lokam sa etasmājjiva ghanāt parāt param purisayam puruşam ikșate. Tad etau Slokar bhavataḥ He who will meditate on the Transcendent Person by this very syllable OM with three moments he contacting the effulgent Sun, freed from sin just as the serpent gets rid of its coils, is led to the brahman-world by the să mans. He from 1. Mag. reads Urahvaloka. Ata eva is added by the Mab. This whole passage is onitted in the Grantha ed. But it is found in both the Mas. and Poons ed. 2. Thibant: Sri Bhāşya trade. p.914-4 tenders it well but the ekamaira, dvimātra and trimátra are wrongly construed as by Hame, as referring to the syllables composing the OM (AUM).
