Brahma Sūtra 3.1.11

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

सुकृतदुष्कृते एवेति तु बादरिः

sukṛtaduṣkṛte eveti tu bādariḥ

Sūtra translation

But (karana means) nothing but good and evil works ; thus Badari opines.

The teacher Bddari, however, thinks that the word ‘^^ara«a’ denotes nothing else but good works and evil works. It means the same as anush/>5ana

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

सुकृतदुष्कृते एवेति तु बादरिः

sukṛtaduṣkṛte eveti tu bādariḥ

Sūtra translation

But only good and evil works, thus Bâdari thinks.

As the verb â-kar takes karman for its object (punyam karmâ karati, &c.), and as the separate denotation (i.e. the use of apparently equivalent

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.1.12 in this text

Sūtra

सुकृतदुष्कृते एवेति तु बादरिः

sukṛtaduṣkṛte eveti tu bādariḥ

Sūtra translation

But Badari thinks that only righteous and unrighte- ous deeds are meant by the word ‘ conduct.’

According to the usage in such statements as, “ Do wbat is right; not what is wrong/’ Badari thinks that the righteous and the

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