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1THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST [38] Bonbon HENRY FROWDE Oxford University Press Warehouse Amen Corner, E.G. MACMILLAN & CO., 66 FIFTH AVENUE THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST TRANSLATED BY VARIOUS ORIENTAL SCHOLARS AND EDITED BY F. MAX MULLER VOL. xxxviir ^..^i-' AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1896 [/i// rz^Ais reserved "l PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY HORACE HART, PR:^^rER TO THE UNIVERSITY THE vedAnta-sOtras WITH THE COMMENTARY BY '^ _ A 5ANKARA^ARYA TRANSLATED BY GEORGE THIBAUT PART II AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1896 [^// rights reserved~\ B 151 CONTENTS. VEDANTA-StTRAS WITH THE COMMENTARY BY ^ANKARAi^ARYA. Adhyaya II. PAGE Pada III 3 PadalV 74 Adhyaya III. Pada I loi Pada II 133 Pada III 184 Pada IV 285 Adhyaya IV. Pada I -331 Pada II ......... . 364 Pada III 382 Pada IV ......... . 405 Indexes by Dr. M. Winternitz : — Index of Quotations to Volumes XXXIV (i) and XXXVIII (ii) 421 Index of Sanslcrit Words to Volumes XXXIV (i) and XXXVIII (ii) 431 General Index to Volumes XXXIV (i) and XXXVIII (ii) 441 Corrigenda 503 Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East . . . 505 VEDANTA-SUTRAS WITH 5ANKARA BHASHYA. [38] SECOND ADHYAYA. THIRD PADA. Reverence to the highest Self !
2I. Ether ^ (does) not (originate), on account of the absence of scriptural statement. In the Vedanta-texts we meet in different places with different statements concerning the origination of various things. Some of those passages declare that ether originated ; some do not. Some record the origination of air; others do not. Other passages again make analogous statements concerning the individual soul and the vital airs. — Similarly we obser\^e that other scriptural texts contradict one another concerning order of succession and the like. — Now, as we ourselves have inferred the worthlessness of other philosophical doctrines from their mutual contradictions, a suspicion might arise that our doctrine is equally worthless, owing to its intrinsic contradictions. Hence a new discussion is begun in order to clear from all doubt the sense of all those Vedanta-texts which refer to creation, and thus to remove the suspicion alluded to. Here we have to consider in the first place the question
3* Here, as generally in the preceding parts of this translation, akaja is rendered by ' ether.' There is no doubt that occasionally the appropriate — and in some cases the only possible — rendering is not ' ether ' but ' space ; ' but the former rendering, after all, best agrees with the general Vedantic \iew of aka^a. The Vedantins do not clearly distinguish between empty space and an exceedingly fine matter filling all space, and thus it happens that in many cases where we speak of the former they speak of aka^a, i.e. the all-per\-ading substratum of sound; which howsoever attenuated is yet one of the material elements, and as such belongs to the same category as air, fire, water, and earth. E 2 VEDANTA-SUTRAS.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST [38] Bonbon HENRY FROWDE Oxford University Press Warehouse Amen Corner, E.G. MACMILLAN & CO., 66 FIFTH AVENUE THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST TRANSLATED BY VARIOUS ORIENTAL SCHOLARS AND EDITED BY F. MAX MULLER VOL. xxxviir ^..^i-' AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1896 [/i// rz^Ais reserved "l PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY HORACE HART, PR:^^rER TO THE UNIVERSITY THE vedAnta-sOtras WITH THE COMMENTARY BY '^ _ A 5ANKARA^ARYA TRANSLATED BY GEORGE THIBAUT PART II AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1896 [^// rights reserved~\ B 151 CONTENTS. VEDANTA-StTRAS WITH THE COMMENTARY BY ^ANKARAi^ARYA. Adhyaya II. PAGE Pada III 3 PadalV 74 Adhyaya III. Pada I loi Pada II 133 Pada III 184 Pada IV 285 Adhyaya IV. Pada I -331 Pada II ......... . 364 Pada III 382 Pada IV ......... . 405 Indexes by Dr. M. Winternitz : — Index of Quotations to Volumes XXXIV (i) and XXXVIII (ii) 421 Index of Sanslcrit Words to Volumes XXXIV (i) and XXXVIII (ii) 431 General Index to Volumes XXXIV (i) and XXXVIII (ii) 441 Corrigenda 503 Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East . . . 505 VEDANTA-SUTRAS WITH 5ANKARA BHASHYA. [38] SECOND ADHYAYA. THIRD PADA. Reverence to the highest Self !
2I. Ether ^ (does) not (originate), on account of the absence of scriptural statement. In the Vedanta-texts we meet in different places with different statements concerning the origination of various things. Some of those passages declare that ether originated ; some do not. Some record the origination of air; others do not. Other passages again make analogous statements concerning the individual soul and the vital airs. — Similarly we obser\^e that other scriptural texts contradict one another concerning order of succession and the like. — Now, as we ourselves have inferred the worthlessness of other philosophical doctrines from their mutual contradictions, a suspicion might arise that our doctrine is equally worthless, owing to its intrinsic contradictions. Hence a new discussion is begun in order to clear from all doubt the sense of all those Vedanta-texts which refer to creation, and thus to remove the suspicion alluded to. Here we have to consider in the first place the question
3* Here, as generally in the preceding parts of this translation, akaja is rendered by ' ether.' There is no doubt that occasionally the appropriate — and in some cases the only possible — rendering is not ' ether ' but ' space ; ' but the former rendering, after all, best agrees with the general Vedantic \iew of aka^a. The Vedantins do not clearly distinguish between empty space and an exceedingly fine matter filling all space, and thus it happens that in many cases where we speak of the former they speak of aka^a, i.e. the all-per\-ading substratum of sound; which howsoever attenuated is yet one of the material elements, and as such belongs to the same category as air, fire, water, and earth. E 2 VEDANTA-SUTRAS.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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