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[sū. 3. 4. 26. ADH. 5.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 741 Adhikarana 5: The section entitled "Depend- ence on all". (Sūtra 26) SŪTRA 26 "AND DEPENDENCE ON ALL, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCRIP- TURAL TEXT ABOUT SACRIFICE AND SO ON, AS IN THE CASE OF A HORSE." Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha In accordance with the scriptural text: "Him the Brāhmanas desire to know by the recitation of the Veda, by sacrifice" (Bṛh 4.4.2 ¹), knowledge depends for its own origination on all the works which are the means, as one depends on a horse for going Vedānta-kaustubha Knowledge being established to be the means to the highest end of men, it might be thought that all works are to be given up. Apprehending this objection, (the author) is now exhibiting their use for producing the desire to know. On the doubt, viz If the highest end of men arises through knowledge alone, then is it independent of all duties incumbent on the stages of life or dependent ?—if it be suggested that the desired end being accomplished through it (viz. knowledge) alone, what is the use of works ? Hence it is independent of all,— We reply: "Dependence on all". The compound "dependence on all" ("sarvāpekṣā") is to be explained as follows. That which depends, for its origin, on all the duties, incumbent on the stages of life, i.e. the subsidiary parts (of knowledge), which are performed by those who are desirous of salva- tion and aim at knowledge. But when it has originated, it does not depend on anything for bringing about the highest end of men. Why ? "In accordance with the scriptural text about sacrifice and the rest," viz. "Him the Brāhmaṇas desire to know by the recitation of the Veda, by sacrifice, by charity, by austerity, by fasting" (Bṛh. 4.4.22). The word 'Vividiṣanti' is to be explained as: They 'desire to know' by sacrifices and the rest. Here, if the primacy of the meaning of the suffix be admitted, then sacrifices and the rest are to be regarded as subsidiary parts of knowledge by way of (producing) a desire (for 1 Ś, R, Bh, Śk, B.