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[sū. 1. 2. 19. ADH 5 ] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 123 Wherefore? “On account of the designation of His qualities”, i.e. on account of the designation here of the peculiar qualities of the Highest Self, viz. ‘being the governor of all worlds, Vedas, sacrifices, beings, vital-breaths, soul and the rest’, ‘being the inner controller of all’, ‘being immortal’ and so on. Hence a deity cannot be understood, because a deity, too, is but an individual soul and the stated qualities are not appropriate on his part, and because in that case, the statement that the inner controller is unknowable by the earth-god, viz. ‘Whom the earth does not know’ (Bṛh. 3.7.3), becomes inconsistent. The individual soul, too, is not the inner controller, for the stated qualities are not appropriate on its part as well; and because in the passage: ‘He is your soul, the inner controller’ (Bṛh. 3 7 3, etc.), it is declared to be different from the inner controller by the use of the genetive case (= ‘your’), designating difference. COMPARISON Śaṃkara This is sūtra 18 in Śaṃkara-bhāṣya. Reading different, viz. ‘Antaryāmyadhidaivādiṣu . . . . ’ ¹, i.e. omits ‘lokādiṣu’. Rāmānuja Reading like the Chowkhamba edition.² Interpretation different, viz. exactly like Śrīnivāsa’s. Nimbārka reads ‘lokādiṣu’ in the sūtra, like Rāmānuja, but gives no meaning of the word ‘lokādiṣu’. Bhāskara and Śrīkaṇṭha This is sūtra 18 in his commentary. Reading like the Chow- khamba edition.³ Baladeva This is sūtra 18 in his commentary. Reading different, viz. like Śaṃkara’s.⁴ 1 Ś B. 1.2.18, p. 282. 2 Śrī B. 1 2.19, p 257, vol 1. 3 Bh. B. 1.2 18, p. 43. ŚK B. 1.2.19, p. 368, Part 4 4 G B. 1 2 18 (p. 128, Chap. 1).