Brahma Sūtra 1.4.18

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

अन्यार्थं तु जैमिनिः प्रश्नव्याख्यानाभ्यामपि चैवमेके

anyārthaṃ tu jaiminiḥ praśnavyākhyānābhyāmapi caivameke

Sūtra translation

But Jaimini thinks that (the reference to the individual soul) has another purport, on account of the question and answer; and thus some also (read in their text).

Whether the passage under discussion is concerned with the individual soul or with Brahman, is, in the opinion of the teacher Jaimini, no matter

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

अन्यार्थं तु जैमिनिः प्रश्नव्याख्यानाभ्यामपि चैवमेके

anyārthaṃ tu jaiminiḥ praśnavyākhyānābhyāmapi caivameke

Sūtra translation

But Jaimini thinks that it has another purport, on account of the question and answer; and thus some also.

The 'but' is meant to preclude the idea that the mention made of the individual soul enables us to understand the whole section as

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 1.4.19 in this text

Sūtra

अन्यार्थं तु जैमिनिः प्रश्नव्याख्यानाभ्यामपि चैवमेके

anyārthaṃ tu jaiminiḥ praśnavyākhyānābhyāmapi caivameke

Sūtra translation

Butfor the sake of the knowledge of the other (Brah- man), (the names of the Lord are used to denote the things of the, world), so Jaimini opines from the questions and ans- wers in the (upanishad) ; and because some Sakhins actually read texts to this effect.

Jaimini thinks that the words declare even actions, etc., so as to produce the knowledge of the Lord ; for in the Atharvanopanishad, the

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