Brahma Sūtra 2.1.18

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

युक्तेः शब्दान्तराच्च

yukteḥ śabdāntarācca

Sūtra translation

From reasoning and from another Vedic passage.

That the effect exists before its origination and is non-different from the cause, follows from reasoning as well as from a further scriptural passage.

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Rāmānuja’s text carries this sūtra and Sūtra 2.1.17 as one sūtra.

Sūtra

असद्व्यपदेशान्नेति चेन्न धर्मान्तरेण वाक्यशेषाद्युक्तेः शब्दान्तराच्च

asadvyapadeśānneti cenna dharmāntareṇa vākyaśeṣādyukteḥ śabdāntarācca

Sūtra translation

If it be said 'not, on account of the designation of the (effect as the) non-existent; we reply, not so, on account (of such designation being due to) another attribute, (as appears) from the complementary passage, from Reasoning, and from another Vedic text.

The assertion that ordinary speech as well as the Veda acknowledges the existence of the effect in the cause cannot be upheld 'on account

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 2.1.19 in this text

Sūtra

युक्तेः शब्दांतराच्च

yukteḥ śabdāṃtarācca

Sūtra translation

From admissibility and from the particular Vedic passage-

When it is admitted that the quality of being effi- cacious, belonging to the means, is derived from the Lord, then the bringing together

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