Brahma Sūtra 2.2.21
Śaṅkara
Advaita Vedānta
Numbered 2.2.22 in this text
Sūtra
प्रतिसंख्याप्रतिसंख्यानिरोधाप्राप्तिरविच्छेदात्
pratisaṃkhyāpratisaṃkhyānirodhāprāptiravicchedāt
Sūtra translation
Cessation dependent on a sublative act of the mind, and cessation not so dependent cannot be established, there being no (complete) interruption.
The Bauddhas who maintain that universal destruction is going on constantly, assume that 'whatever forms an object of knowledge and is different from the
Rāmānuja
Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta
Sūtra
प्रतिसंख्याप्रतिसंख्यानिरोधाप्राप्तिरविच्छेदात्
pratisaṃkhyāpratisaṃkhyānirodhāprāptiravicchedāt
Sūtra translation
There is non-establishment of pratisankhyâ and apratisankhyâ destruction, on account of non-interruption.
So far the hypothesis of origination from that which is not has been refuted. The present Sûtra now goes on to declare that also
Madhva
Dvaita Vedānta
Numbered 2.2.22 in this text
Sūtra
प्रतिसंख्याप्रतिसंख्या निरोधाप्राप्तिरविच्छेदात्
pratisaṃkhyāpratisaṃkhyā nirodhāprāptiravicchedāt
Sūtra translation
Both kinds of cessation or (destruction) cannot be established,—(lit. the destruction which is perceived or unper- eeived) ,for (the production of effect by the cause which exists) is not interrupted.
According to the first principle of the system that the cause existing, the effect is necessarily produced, it is not possible to admit that