Discussion
Which of the following is not given in Vedic tradition ?
Answer: C
The debt not given in the Vedic tradition, on the paper's reading, is the Manava-rna.
The standard teaching, stated in the Taittiriya Samhita, is that every person is born with three debts (rna): to the gods (deva-rna), repaid through sacrifice; to the seers (rsi-rna), repaid through study of the Veda; and to the ancestors (pitr-rna), repaid by raising offspring. These are the three debts the Dharmashastras build on.
A debt to fellow human beings is not among them. One Brahmana passage does add a fourth debt, to men, repaid through hospitality, but the paper follows the familiar three-debt scheme, in which the other three options are all present.
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