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Iti Rajna upadisya vipra jatakakovidah
Labdhapachityah sarve pratijagmuh swakan Grihan.
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Iti—thus, Rajna—unto the king, Upadishya—having advised, Vipra—persons who are well versed in the Vedas, Jatakakovidah—those who had received sumptuously as remuneration, sarve—all of them, Pratijagmuh—went back, Swakan—their own, Grihan—houses.
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The persons who were expert in the knowledge of astrology and in the performance of birth ceremony thus instructed the King Yudhisthira about the future history of the child and being sumptuously remunerated all of them went back to their respectivc home.
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The Vedas means the store house of knowledge both material and spiritual. But such knowledge aims at perfection of self realisation. In other words the Vedas are the guidance for the civilised man in every respect. The human life being the opportunity of getting free from all material miseries, it is properly guided by the knowledge of the Vedas both in the matter of material needs and spiritual salvation. The specific intelligent class of men who devoted particularly in the knowledge of Vedas were the Vipras or the graduates of the Vedic knowledge. There are different branches of knowledge in the Vedas of which astrology and pathology are two important branches of knowledge necessary for the common man. So the intelligent class of men in the society generally known as the Brahmins took up all the different branches of Vedic knowledge for guiding the society. Even the department of military education (Dhanurveda) was also taken up by such intelligent class of men and the Vipras were also teachers of this section of knowledge as was Dronacharya, Kripacharya etc.
#$p#The word Vipra mentioned herein is significant. There is a little difference between the Vipras and the Brahmins. The Vipras are those who are expert in the matter of Karmakanda or fruitive activities guiding the society towards fulfilling the material neccessities of life while the Brahmines are expert in spiritual knowledge of transcedence. This department of knowlenge is called Jnanakanda and above this there is the Upasanakanda. Culmination of upasanakanda is devotional service of the Lord Vishnu and when the Brahmins achieve perfection they are called Vaishnava. Vishnu worship is the highest of all other modes of worship,-such elevated Brahmins are called the Vaishnavas engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, and as such Srimad Bhagwatam which is the science of devotional service is very much dear to the Vaisnavas. And as explained in the beginning of the Srimad Bhagwatam, it is the mature fruit of Vedic knowledge and is superior subject matter above the three kandas namely Karma, Jhan and Upashana etc.
#$p#Amongst the karmakanda experts the Jataka expert Vipras were good astrologers who could tell all the future history of a born child simply by astral calculation of the time (Lagna) and such expert Jataka Vipras were present during the birth of Maharaj Parikshit and his grand father Maharaj Yudisthir remunerated the Vipras sufficiently with gold, land, villages, grains, and other valluable necessaries of life which include the cow also. There is need of such Vipras in the social structure and it is the duty of the state to maintain them comfortably as designed in the Vedic procedure. Such expert Vipras being sufficiently paid in kinds by the state they could give free service to the people in general and thus this department of Vedic knowledge could be available for all.
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#i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=iti&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#iti#/i# — thus; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=rājñe&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#rājñe#/i# — unto the King; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=upādiśya&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#upādiśya#/i# — having advised; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=viprāḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#viprāḥ#/i# — persons well versed in the #i#Vedas#/i#; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=jātaka&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#jātaka-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=kovidāḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#kovidāḥ#/i# — persons expert in astrology and in the performance of birth ceremonies; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=labdha&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#labdha-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=apacitayaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#apacitayaḥ#/i# — those who had received sumptuously as remuneration; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=sarve&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#sarve#/i# — all of them; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=pratijagmuḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#pratijagmuḥ#/i# — went back; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=svakān&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#svakān#/i# — their own; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=gṛhān&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#gṛhān#/i# — houses.
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Thus those who were expert in astrological knowledge and in performance of the birth ceremony instructed King Yudhiṣṭhira about the future history of his child. Then, being sumptuously remunerated, they all returned to their respective homes.
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The #i#Vedas#/i# are the storehouse of knowledge, both material and spiritual. But such knowledge aims at perfection of self-realization. In other words, the #i#Vedas#/i# are the guides for the civilized man in every respect. Since human life is the opportunity to get free from all material miseries, it is properly guided by the knowledge of the #i#Vedas#/i#, in the matters of both material needs and spiritual salvation. The specific intelligent class of men who were devoted particularly to the knowledge of the #i#Vedas#/i# were called the #i#vipras#/i#, or the graduates of the Vedic knowledge. There are different branches of knowledge in the #i#Vedas#/i#, of which astrology and pathology are two important branches necessary for the common man. So the intelligent men, generally known as the #i#brāhmaṇas#/i#, took up all the different branches of Vedic knowledge to guide society. Even the department of military education (#i#Dhanur-veda#/i#) was also taken up by such intelligent men, and the #i#vipras#/i# were also teachers of this section of knowledge, as were Droṇācārya, Kṛpācārya, etc.
#$p#The word #i#vipra#/i# mentioned herein is significant. There is a little difference between the #i#vipras#/i# and the #i#brāhmaṇas#/i#. The #i#vipras#/i# are those who are expert in #i#karma-kāṇḍa#/i#, or fruitive activities, guiding the society towards fulfilling the material necessities of life, whereas the #i#brāhmaṇas#/i# are expert in spiritual knowledge of transcendence. This department of knowledge is called #i#jñāna-kāṇḍa#/i#, and above this there is the #i#upāsanā-kāṇḍa#/i#. The culmination of #i#upāsanā-kāṇḍa#/i# is the devotional service of the Lord Viṣṇu, and when the #i#brāhmaṇas#/i# achieve perfection, they are called Vaiṣṇavas. Viṣṇu worship is the highest of the modes of worship. Elevated #i#brāhmaṇas#/i# are Vaiṣṇavas engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, and thus #i#Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam#/i#, which is the science of devotional service, is very dear to the Vaiṣṇavas. And as explained in the beginning of the #i#Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam#/i#, it is the mature fruit of Vedic knowledge and is superior subject matter, above the three #i#kāṇḍas#/i#, namely #i#karma#/i#, #i#jñāna#/i# and #i#upāsanā#/i#.
#$p#Amongst the #i#karma-kāṇḍa#/i# experts, the #i#jātaka#/i# expert #i#vipras#/i# were good astrologers who could tell all the future history of a born child simply by the astral calculations of the time (#i#lagna#/i#). Such expert #i#jātaka-vipras#/i# were present during the birth of Mahārāja Parīkṣit, and his grandfather, Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, awarded the #i#vipras#/i# sufficiently with gold, land, villages, grains and other valuable necessaries of life, which also include cows. There is a need of such #i#vipras#/i# in the social structure, and it is the duty of the state to maintain them comfortably, as designed in the Vedic procedure. Such expert vipras, being sufficiently paid by the state, could give free service to the people in general, and thus this department of Vedic knowledge could be available for all.
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