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[sū. 1. 3. 3. 146 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH 1.] the high' (Muṇḍ 3.2.8) The phrase 'high and low' means: One to whom the high, i.e. Brahmā, Śiva, and the rest, are inferior The phrase 'higher than the high' means: the Person who is higher than the high, i e. the individual soul or prakṛti 1 COMPARISON Rāmānuja and Śrīkaṇṭha Reading slightly different, viz adds a 'ca' in the end.² SŪTRA 3 "NOT THE INFERENCE, ON ACCOUNT OF THE ABSENCE OF TEXTS TO THAT EFFECT." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha Pradhāna, which is arrived at through inference, is not that support, on account of the absence of texts denoting it. Vedānta-kaustubha The support of the heaven, the earth and the rest cannot be "the inference". The non-sentient cause which is without any connection with Brahman, viz. pradhāna, inferred by the Sāṁkhyas on the ground of non-sentient effects, like the elements and the rest ³, is said to be "the inference", and that is not the support of the heaven, the earth and the rest. Why? "On account of the absence of texts to that effect." That is, the "text to that effect" is 'tac-chabda', "absence of text to that effect" is 'atac-chabda', on account of that ⁴, or on account of the absence, here, of texts denoting the

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1 Note that Nimbārka and Śrīnivāsa understand the word 'Vyapadeśāt' as referring to different passages. 2 Śrī. B. 1 2 3, p. 283, Part 1. ŚK. B. 1.3.2, p. 401, Part 4. 3 First, we infer that every effect must have a cause, that cause another cause and so on, and finally there must be an uncaused first cause. Secondly, we infer that this uncaused first cause must be non-sentient, since the effects which we perceive are non-sentient, and the effect and its cause must be similar in nature. It is in this way that the Sāṁkhyas arrive at non-sentient first cause or pradhāna. 4 This explains the compound 'atac-chabdāt'.