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[SŪ. 2. 1. 6-7. 278 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH 3 ] CORRECT CONCLUSION (Sutras 6-7) SŪTRA 6 “ BUT (IT) IS SEEN.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha With regard to it, we reply: “It is seen” that there is the origin of hairs on the head and so on from a person from whom they are different, and of dung-beetles from the cow-dung from which they are different. Hence it is not to be said that the universe, because of being different from Brahman, has not Him as its material cause. Vedānta-kaustubha The author points out that such a prima facie view is based on a fallacious reason (viz. ‘on account of difference’). The word “but” is for disposing of the prima facie view The statement that this universe has not Brahman as its material cause on account of being different from Him, is not tenable, since it “is seen” that there is the origin of nails, body-hairs and the rest from a person from whom they are different, and that of the dung-beetles from the cow-dung, from which they are different,—on account of this,—this is the sense. COMPARISON Baladeva Interpretation same, but he takes this sūtra as forming an adhikaraṇa by itself. ————— (CORRECT CONCLUSION (end)) SŪTRA 7 “ IF IT BE OBJECTED THAT (IN THAT CASE THE EFFECT MUST BE) NON-EXISTENT (WE REPLY :) NO, ON ACCOUNT OF THERE BEING A NEGATION MERELY ” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha If it be objected: If the effect be different from its material cause, it must be “non-existent” prior to its origination,—(we reply.) No such objection can be raised, “on account of there being a negation