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[sū. 2. 4. 9. ADH 5.] VEDĀNTA-PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA 459 without wind by its self-power. There was, verily, nothing whatso- ever other than it, or higher’ (Ṛg. V. 10.129.2¹), by the words ‘was breathing’, meaning ‘He existed breathing’, the motion of the vital- breath at the time of the universal dissolution is designated. We reply: “The chief too”, i.e. the chief vital-breath, too, originates like the elements and the rest, since in the scriptural text: ‘From him arise the vital-breath, the mind and all the sense-organs, the ether, the air’ (Muṇḍ. 2 1.3), like the origin of the great elements and the rest, the origin of the chief vital-breath, too, is mentioned; and since it is known that prior to creation there was unity alone and no diversity. The meaning of the text: ‘There was neither death’ (Ṛg. V. 10.129.2), on the other hand, is as follows: ‘Then’, i.e at the time of the universal dissolution, ‘there was no death’, the killer. There was ‘no immortal with self-power’, i e there was no food of the gods (amṛta) together with the food of fathers (svadhā). There was neither the moon, the sign of the night, nor the sun, the sign of the day. ‘That one,’ i.e. Brahman alone, the seed of the universe, ‘breathed’, i.e. existed Of what nature was He? ‘Breathless,’ i.e. without effects like the air and the rest, viz in His causal state. There was nothing other than Him, i e. Brahman. Hence it is established that like the ether and the rest, the chief vital-breath too originates from Brahman. Here ends the section entitled “The origin of the chief vital- breath” (4). Adhikaraṇa 5: The section entitled “The air and function”. (Sūtras 9—12) SŪTRA 9 “(THE VITAL-BREATH IS) NOT AIR AND FUNCTION, ON ACCOUNT OF THE SEPARATE TEACHING.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha The vital-breath is “not” mere “air”, nor a sense-organ, nor a “function” (of the sense-organs). But we hold that the vital-breath ¹ P. 387, lines 21–23.