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[SŪ 3. 3. 42. ADH. 19.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 673 COMPARISON Baladeva This is sūtra 43 in his commentary. He too takes it to be an adhikaraṇa by itself, concerned, however, with an entirely different topic The question is as to whether the Lord is to be meditated on as Kṛṣṇa alone. The answer is : "(There is) no restriction with regard to the specifying of that (viz. the Lord), (i.e. there is no fixed rule that the Lord is to be worshipped as Kṛṣṇa alone), on account of that being found (in Scripture), for there is a soparate fruit, (viz.) non- obstruction (of the worship of Kṛṣṇa)". That is, the worship of Kṛṣṇa is the unobstructed or direct means to salvation, while the worship of other deities is the indirect means ¹ Adhikaraṇa 19. The section entitled "Offer- ing". (Sūtra 42) SŪTRA 42 “SIMPLY AS IN THE CASE OF OFFERING, THAT HAS BEEN SAID.” Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha During the meditations on the attributes also, the meditation on the dahara (or the small), the substratum of the attributes, is to be repeated as qualified by those attributes respectively, "as in the case of the offering" of the sacrificial cake ², designated in the text: "Let one offer the sacrificial cake on eleven potsherds to Indra, the king, to Indra, the over-lord, to Indra, the self-ruler" (Tait. Saṃ. 2.3.6 ³). "That has been said," viz. "Diverse, forsooth, are the divinities, owing to different conceptions".⁴ Vedānta-kaustubha It has been said above that the meditations founded on the sub- sidiary parts of sacrificial acts are not to be inserted in those acts ¹ G.B. 3.3.43, pp. 189-190, Chap. 3. ² Puroḍāś. ³ Ś, R, Bh, Śk. P. 174, lines 13-14, vol. 1. ⁴ Ś, R, Bh, Śk.