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[sŪ. 2. 3. 48. ADH. 12.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 443 desirous of heaven should perform sacrifices’ (Tait. Sam 2 5.5), ‘Hence a Śūdra is not to be initiated to a sacrifice’ (Tait Sam. 7.1.1) fit in on account of their connection with different bodies, “as in the case of fire and so on”, i.e just as in spite of being the same, fire is brought from the house of a Śrotriya, but one from crematory and the like is rejected; and just as the urine and excrement of cows and the like are enjoined as holy, but those very things of different animals are rejected. COMPARISON Śaṃkara and Bhāskara He develops in this connection his doctrine of Adhyāsa.¹ Bhāskara too speaks of his peculiar doctrine of Upādhi. Baladeva This is sūtra 46 in his commentary. He continues the same theme,—viz. the distinction between incarnations and ordinary individuals. He interprets the sūtra thus: (In the case of individual souls there are) injunctions and prohibitions, on account of (their) connection with bodies, as in the case of light (i e. the eye).² That is, the individual soul, though a part of the Lord, is yet connected with nescience and a body, and is as such under the control of the Lord for its activity and inactivity and so on. But an incarnation, though a part of the Lord, is not under His control; just as the eye or the power of vision, though a part of the sun, depends upon the per- mission, i.e. the presence, of the sun for its activity or otherwise, but a ray of the sun, as a part of the sun, is identical with it, and does not depend upon any permission and the like of the sun. SŪTRA 48 “AND ON ACCOUNT OF NON-EXTENSION THERE IS NO EXTENSION.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha In spite of the fact that the individual souls are parts of the all-pervasive Being, and in spite of the fact that they themselves are 1 Ś.B. 2.3.48, pp. 640 ff , Bh. B. 2.3.48. p. 142. 2 G B. 2.3.46. pp. 226-27, Chap 2.