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[sū. 3. 3. 32. ADH. 14.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 643 Interpretation same, only Rāmānuja does not take sūtra 31 (sūtra 32 according to Nimbārka) as forming an adhikaraṇa by itself, but includes it under the section entitled "The Passing Away" (section 12 according to Nimbārka). He, however, takes 32 (sūtra 31 according to Nimbārka) as forming a section by itself, like Nimbārka. Śrī- kaṇṭha takes each of these two sūtras as constituting an adhikaraṇa by itself, like Nimbārka. Baladeva This is sūtra 32 in his commentary He too begins a new adhikaraṇa here, but concerned with an entirely different topic. He reads "avirodhāt" instead of "avirodhaḥ" Thus : "(There is) no rule (that meditation, muttering prayers, singing the name of the Lord and the rest are to be performed conjointly always as a means to salvation, since any one of them may singly lead to salvation), since there is no contradiction of all (texts), on account of word and inference".¹ Adhikaraṇa 14. The section entitled "So long as the office lasts". (Sūtra 32) SŪTRA 32 "OF THOSE WHO ARE ENTRUSTED WITH (CERTAIN) OFFICE, THERE IS ABIDING SO LONG AS THE OFFICE LASTS." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha Of Vasiṣṭha and the rest, on the other hand, "there is abiding so long as the office lasts", owing to the influence of the works of which their office is the result. Vedānta-kaustubha (The author) is now refuting the following objection: The argument stated above, viz. that through the power of know- ledge there result the decay of all the karmas of a knower at the time of his separation from the body, and the (consequent) attainment (by him) ¹ G.B. 3.3.32, pp. 164-165, Chap. 3.