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FIRST CHAPTER (Adhyāya) FOURTH QUARTER (Pāda) Adhikarana 1 The section entitled 'What is derived from inference'. (Sūtras 1–7) SŪTRA 1 “IF IT BE OBJECTED THAT WHAT IS DERIVED FROM INFERENCE (VIZ. PRADHĀNA), TOO, (IS MENTIONED IN THE TEXTS) OF SOME (BRANCHES), (WE REPLY:) NO, BECAUSE OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT IS PUT DOWN IN THE SIMILE OF THE BODY, AND (THE TEXT) SHOWS (THIS).” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha If it be objected that in a text of the Kaṭha-branch, viz. ‘Higher than the great (mahat) is the unmanifest (avyakta), higher than the unmanifest is the Person (puruṣa)’ (Kaṭha 3.11 ¹), “What is derived from inference” ², i.e. pradhāna, “too”, is found mentioned,³— (We reply :) “No”, because in accordance with the text: ‘Know the soul to be the lord of the chariot and the body to be the chariot’ (Kaṭha 3.3 ⁴), the body, which is put down in the simile of the chariot, is understood by the term ‘unmanifest’. “And” having demon- strated the mode of subduing the sense-organs, the text “shows”, in the concluding portion ⁵, that what had been previously contrived through the simile ⁶ (viz. the body), is understood here, thus: ‘A wise man should restrain speech in the mind, that he should restrain in the intelligent soul, the intelligent soul in the great (mahat), that he should restrain in the tranquil soul’ (Kaṭha 3.13 ⁷) ¹ Ś, R, Bh, ŚK, B. ² For, why pradhāna is called ‘ānumānika’, see footnote 1, p 42. ³ Cf. Br. Sū. 1.1.5, which contends that pradhāna is ‘aśabda’ or not mentioned in Scripture. ⁴ Ś, R, Bh, ŚK, B. ⁵ C.S S. ed. reads ‘vākya-śeṣaḥ’ (p. 19). ⁶ ‘Rūpaka-parikalpitaṁ grahaṇam’ is evidently a misprint. All other editions read ‘rūpaka-parikalpita-grahaṇam’, meaning ‘rūpaka-parikalpitasya grahaṇam’. Vide e.g C.S S. ed (p. 19). ⁷ Ś, R, Bh, ŚK, B.