Adhyāya II · Pāda 4
22 sūtras
- Sūtra 2.4.1Thus thq vital airs.Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.2On account of the impossibility of a secondary (origin of the pra;^as).Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.3On account of that (word which indicates origin) being enunciated at first (in connexion with the pri^^as).Sūtra translationCommentary from Śaṅkara and Madhva only at this sūtra
- Sūtra 2.4.4Because speech is preceded by that (viz. fire and the other elements).Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.5(The pra;^as are) seven, on account of this being understood (from scriptural passages) and of the specification (of those seven).Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.6r3ut (there are also, in addition to the seven preV^as mentioned,) the hands and so on. This being a settled matter, therefore (we must) not (conclude) thus (viz. that there are seven pra;/as only).Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.7And (they are) minute.Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.8And the best (i.e. the chief vital air).Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.9(The chief prA/^a is) neither air nor function, on account of its being mentioned separately.Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.10But (the prd/ea is subordinate to the soul) like the eye, Sz:c., on account of being taught with them (the eye, &c.), and for other reasons.Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.11And on account of (its) not being an instru- ment the objection is not (valid); for thus (scripture) declares.Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.12It is designated as having five functions like mind.Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.13And it is minute.Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.14But there is guidance (of the prdwas) by fire, &c., on account of that being declared by scripture.Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.15(It is not so) (because the pranas are con- nected) with that to which the pra;^as belong (i.e. the individual soul), (a thing we know) from scrip- ture.Sūtra translationCommentary from Śaṅkara and Madhva only at this sūtra
- Sūtra 2.4.16And on account of the permanence of this (viz. the embodied soul).Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.17They (the pra;^as) are senses, on account of being so designated, with the exception of the best (the mukhya prA/^a).Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.18On account of the scriptural statement of difference.Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.19And on account of the difference of character- istics.Sūtra translationCommentary from Śaṅkara and Madhva only at this sūtra
- Sūtra 2.4.20But the fashioning of names and forms belongs to him who renders tripartite, on account of the teaching (of scripture).Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.21The flesh, &c., originates from earth, accord- ing to the scriptural statement ; and (so also) in the case of the two other (elements).Sūtra translation
- Sūtra 2.4.22But on account of their distinctive nature there is a (distinctive) designation of them.Sūtra translation