Brahma Sūtra 2.2.10

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

विप्रतिषेधाच्चासमञ्जसम्

vipratiṣedhāccāsamañjasam

Sūtra translation

And moreover (the Sâ@nkhya doctrine) is objectionable on account of its contradictions.

The doctrine of the Sâ@nkhyas, moreover, is full of contradictions. Sometimes they enumerate seven senses, sometimes eleven. In some places they teach that the

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Numbered 2.2.9 in this text

Sūtra

विप्रतिषेधाच्चासमञ्जसम्

vipratiṣedhāccāsamañjasam

Sūtra translation

And (it is) objectionable on account of the contradictions.

The Sânkhya-system, moreover, labours from many internal contradictions.—The Sânkhyas hold that while Prakriti is for the sake of another and the object of knowledge

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

विप्रतिषेधाच्चासमञ्जसं

vipratiṣedhāccāsamañjasaṃ

Sūtra translation

And because of its thoroughly being condemned, the entire class of these systems not recognising a Lord) does not recommend itself to reason.

The systems of philosophy which do notj recognise a Supreme Lord, being opposed to the declaration of all Srutis and Smrits and to reason,

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