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[SŪ. 1. 4. 4-5. 220 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH. 1.] Śrīkaṇṭha Interpretation different, viz '(The soul, the body and the rest) have a meaning as dependent on Him (viz. the Lord)'.¹ SŪTRA 4 ' ALSO BECAUSE OF THE ABSENCE OF ANY STATEMENT OF (ITS) BEING AN OBJECT TO BE KNOWN.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha The word 'unmanifest' does not denote pradhāna of the Tān- trikas (i e. the Sāṁkhyas), "also because of the absence of any state- ment of its being an object to be known " Vedānta-kaustubha For this reason also pradhāna is not denoted by the term 'un- manifest' here. Why ? "Because of the absence of any statement of its being an object to be known." The Sāṁkhyas, incoherently prattling that salvation arises from a right discrimination between prakṛti (= matter) and puruṣa (= soul), say that with a view to the attainment of salvation, prakṛti, too, should be known by one desiring for salvation. But pradhāna is not mentioned by the Kathas as an object to be known, there being the mention of the word 'un- manifest' simply. SŪTRA 5 “IF IT BE OBJECTED THAT (SCRIPTURE) SPEAKS (OF PRADHĀNA AS AN OBJECT TO BE KNOWN), (WE REPLY:) NO, FOR THE INTELLI- GENT SOUL (IS THE OBJECT TO BE KNOWN), ON ACCOUNT OF THE TOPIC.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha If it be objected that the text: 'By discerning him, who is without beginning, without end, higher than the great (mahat) eternal, one is delivered from the jaws of death' (Kaṭha 3.15 ²), "speaks" of pradhāna as an object to be known,— ¹ ŚK. B. 1.1.3., p. 514, Part 6. ² Ś, R, Bh, ŚK, B