Brahma Sūtra 1.3.30

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

समाननामरूपत्वाच्चाऽऽवृत्तावप्यविरोधो दर्शनात्स्मृतेश्च

samānanāmarūpatvāccā''vṛttāvapyavirodho darśanātsmṛteśca

Sūtra translation

And on account of the equality of names and forms there is no contradiction (to the eternity of the word of the Veda) in the renovation (of the world); as is seen from Sruti and Smriti.

If—the pûrvapakshin resumes—the individual gods and so on did, like the individual animals, originate and pass away in an unbroken succession so that there

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Numbered 1.3.29 in this text

Sūtra

समाननामरूपत्वाच्चावृत्तावप्यविरोधो दर्शनात्स्मृतेश्च

samānanāmarūpatvāccāvṛttāvapyavirodho darśanātsmṛteśca

Sūtra translation

And on account of the equality of names and forms there is no contradiction, even in the renovation (of the world); as appears from Sruti and Smriti.

On account of the sameness of names and forms, as stated before, there is no difficulty in the way of the origination of the

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

समाननामरूपत्वाच्चावृत्तावप्यविरोधोदर्शनात्स्मृतेश्च

samānanāmarūpatvāccāvṛttāvapyavirodhodarśanātsmṛteśca

Sūtra translation

The contradiction (to the eternity of the Word) doe* not exist, alto for the reaton that the successive (god*) have the tame name and form, though the previou* individual does not continue in each place, a* i* seen from 8ruti and Smriti.

The contradiction disappears, for, though the previ* ous gods on obtaining release should vacate their respective places, the gods that once occupied’or that now

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