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[sū. 2. 2. 17-18. 348 VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA ADH. 3.] SŪTRA 17 "AND BECAUSE OF NON-ACCEPTANCE, (THERE MUST BE AN) ABSOLUTE DISREGARD (FOR THE ATOMIC THEORY)." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha Because of the rejection of atomism by the wise, "an absolute disregard" for it is to be shown by those who are desirous of salvation. Vedānta-kaustubha Certain portions,—such as the doctrine of a pre-existent cause and the rest,—of the doctrine of the causality of pradhāna, though rejected on the ground of its opposition to Scripture and reasoning, has been accepted by those who are versed in the Veda. But "because of the non-acceptance", i.e. rejection, by the wise, in toto, of the doctrine of the causality of the atoms, imagined by the Vaiśeṣikas; because of its opposition to reasoning; and because of its opposition to the Veda, "there is an absolute disregard",—i.e. the doctrine of the causality of atoms is to be disregarded by those who wish for the highest. Hence it is established that there is no contradiction of the doctrine of the causality of Brahman by the doctrine of the causality of atoms which is to be rejected from a distance Here ends the section entitled "The great and the long" (2). Adhikaraṇa 3: The section entitled "The aggregate". (Sūtras 18-27) SŪTRA 18 "EVEN IF THE AGGREGATE HAVING TWO CAUSES (BE ADMITTED), (THERE IS) THE NON-ESTABLISHMENT OF THAT (VIZ. OF THE AGGREGATES)." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha The author is refuting the view of Sugata.¹ Even if the aggregates of the element and the elemental, the mind and the mental be admitted, still then, on account of the non- ¹ I.e. of the Buddhists.