The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya: Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
Religion
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya: Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
Vedanta
[Footnote 59: The three last opinions are those of the followers of the
Nyaya, the Sa@nkhya, and the Yoga-philosophy respectively. The three
opinions mentioned first belong to various materialistic schools; the
two subsequent ones to two sects of Bauddha philosophers.]
[Footnote 60: As, for instance, the passages 'this person consists of
the essence of food;' 'the eye, &c. spoke;' 'non-existing this was in
the beginning,' &c.]
[Footnote 61: So the compound is to be divided according to An. Gi. and
Go.; the Bha. proposes another less plausible division.]
[Footnote 62: According to Nirukta I, 2 the six bhavavikara/h/ are:
origination, existence, modification, increase, decrease, destruction.]
[Footnote 63: The pradhana, called also prak/ri/ti, is the primal causal
matter of the world in the /S/a@nkhya-system. It will be fully discussed
in later parts of this work. To avoid ambiguities, the term pradhana has
been left untranslated. Cp. Sa@nkhya Karika 3.]
[Footnote 64: Ke/k/it tu hira/n/yagaroha/m/ sa/m/sari/n/am evagamaj
jagaddhetum a/k/akshate. Ananada Giri.]
[Footnote 65: Viz. the Vai/s/eshikas.]
[Footnote 66: Atmana/h/ /s/ruter ity artha/h/. Ananda Giri.]
[Footnote 67: Text (or direct statement), suggestive power (linga),
syntactical connection (vakya), &c., being the means of proof made use
of in the Purva Mima/m/sa.]
[Footnote 68: The so-called sakshatkara of Brahman. The &c. comprises
inference and so on.]
[Footnote 69: So, for instance, the passage 'he carves the sacrificial
post and makes it eight-cornered,' has a purpose only as being
supplementary to the injunction 'he ties the victim to the sacrificial
post.']
[Footnote 70: If the fruits of the two /s/astras were not of a different
nature, there would be no reason for the distinction of two /s/astras;
if they are of a different nature, it cannot be said that the knowledge
of Brahman is enjoined for the purpose of final release, in the same way
as sacrifices are enjoined for the purpose of obtaining the heavenly
world and the like.]
[Footnote 71: The first passage shows that the Self is not joined to the
gross body; the second that it is not joined to the subtle body; the
third that is independent of either.]
[Footnote 72: Ananda Giri omits 'ata/h/.' His comment is:
p/ri/thagjij/n/asavishayatva/k/ /k/a dharmadyasp/ri/sh/t/atva/m/
brahma/n/o yuktam ityaha; tad iti; ata/h/ /s/abdapa/th/e dharmadyasparse
karmaphalavailaksba/n/ya/m/ hetuk/ri/tam.--The above translation follows
Govindananda's first explanation. Tat kaivalyam brahmaiva
karmaphalavilaksha/n/atvad ity artha/h/.]
[Footnote 73: Sampat. Sampan namalpe vastuny alambane samanyena
kena/k/in mahato vastuna/h/ sampadanam. Ananda Giri.]
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