Brahma Sūtra 2.1.12

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

एतेन शिष्टापरिग्रहा अपि व्याख्याताः

etena śiṣṭāparigrahā api vyākhyātāḥ

Sūtra translation

Thereby those (theories) also which are not accepted by competent persons are explained.

Hitherto we have refuted those objections against the Vedânta-texts which, based on reasoning, take their stand on the doctrine of the pradhâna being the

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Numbered 2.1.13 in this text

Sūtra

एतेन शिष्टापरिग्रहा अपि व्याख्याताः

etena śiṣṭāparigrahā api vyākhyātāḥ

Sūtra translation

Thereby also the remaining (theories) which are not comprised (within the Veda) are explained.

Not comprised means those theories which are not known to be comprised within (countenanced by) the Veda. The Sûtra means to say that by

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 2.1.13 in this text

Sūtra

एतेन शिष्ट अपरिग्रहा अपि व्याख्याताः

etena śiṣṭa aparigrahā api vyākhyātāḥ

Sūtra translation

Hereby all the remaining systems not countenanced by scripture are also explained away.

Hereby, i.e., by the possibility and the impossibility of parallel instances are disproved also, the remaining systems not countenanced by (i.e., opposed to the

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