The words barhis, aja and others, though they are not used by Aryas in respect of unpurified grass, ghee and others, yet they retain their primary significance in respect of them, because their non-usage by some (persons) cannot establish the absence of their signifying power. Therefore it is established in the Brirajyddhikaraa (PMSI, 4.0) that the words barhia etc., have their signifying power in respect of the genus, tr¢tra, grassness. This is stated in the vertiar.' In respect of a word which is seen at some places at least determined in ts geans-sense, there ino reason to postulate' any other cialition (iitd, that word not losing that conditint (i.e., genns-sease. "
Therefore the word searga is verily a common general term denoting hieration also
Pirapalya (O¢jection}: If it be asked : though the words barhis, ajya and others are not used by Aryas so as to indicate unpurified grass, ghee and others, still they may have their siguifyiug power in respect of the unpurified things also, since there is ancha use by non-Aryas. But in the case of stargeits signifying power is to be accepted so as to exclude anything other than that delight that is obtainable in the world lying between the Sun and the Pole star, since the word is never used to signify anything other than thatOtherwise the couctnsion arrived at in the Prodgatradhikaraha (PIS. III. V. 8•26) is that the word Udgt poinally means the particular !tvik who is the head of the four rtviks officiating as Saman singers, since it is never used in respect of any other of the group. But that particular tvik being only one, the plural in the mantra * Let the Hotu's capcome forward, also the Brahuan's cup, the dgt's cup, the Yajamana's cup, and the sadasya's cup" is inconsistentTherefore we have to assume for it a secondary significauce based upon the nomial guificance, so
1. yadariharbordvaria (p. $s Poona ed.) A sm, Brn IV. K.. & *4atataba Sr. S. K. 28.8 cf; The test = of the top of the right site instead of the word Alt is the var text,
