Brahma Sūtra 2.3.8

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

एतेन मातरिश्वा व्याख्यातः

etena mātariśvā vyākhyātaḥ

Sūtra translation

Hereby air (also) is explained.

The present Sutra extends the reasoning concerning ether to the air of which the ether is the abode.—The different views about air also arc

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

एतेन मातरिश्वा व्याख्यातः

etena mātariśvā vyākhyātaḥ

Sūtra translation

Hereby air is explained.

The same argumentation explains the origination of air also. That a special Sûtra is devoted to the origination of air—instead of disposing in one

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

एतेन मातरिश्वा व्याख्यातः

etena mātariśvā vyākhyātaḥ

Sūtra translation

Hereby the Chief of breathe ie (also) explained.

‘ Hereby,’ that is, by the statement of primary and secondary non-origination, by the limitation of power (in Vayu), the text concerning the non-origination

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