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[SŪ. 1. 4. 10. 230 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH 2 ] implied by the vital-breath, in the passage. ‘Seven vital breaths arise from him’ (Mahānār. 8 4), the text goes on to read after that ‘By an unborn female, red, white and black, bringing forth manifold offspring of a like nature, lies an unborn male, enjoying. Another unborn male discards her, who has been enjoyed’ (Mahānār 9 2) And since this sacred text is to be taken as referring to prakṛti, which has Brahman for its soul, and since here, too, the same must inevitably be the case, that prakṛti alone which has Brahman for its soul is the object to be established by the sacred text about the unborn one. COMPARISON Śaṁkara The interpretation of ‘jyotir-upakramā’ different, viz. ‘(The unborn one is) the beginning (i.e. the material cause) of light (i.e. of the four kinds of material objects, consisting in light, i.e. fire, water, and so on)’.¹ SŪTRA 10 “AND ON ACCOUNT OF THE TEACHING OF THE FASHIONING (OF THE UNIVERSE), THERE IS NO CONTRADICTION, AS IN THE CASE OF THE HONEY (-MEDITATION)” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha No contradiction is involved in taking one and the same substra- tum of qualities as unborn and having, at the same time, Brahman for its material cause. On account of the teaching of the creation of the universe from Brahman, the cause of the world and possessing subtle powers, both fit in, “as in the case of the honey-meditation”. Vedānta-kaustubha To the objection, viz. How can an unborn one be something generated, the author replies: The word “and” is for disposing of the objection. There is no contradiction in taking an unborn one as something generated. Why? “On account of the teaching of fashioning.” The word “fashioning” ¹ Ś.B. 1.4 9, p. 402.