Brahma Sūtra 3.3.37

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

व्यतिहारो विशिंषन्ति हीतरवत्

vyatihāro viśiṃṣanti hītaravat

Sūtra translation

There is exchange (of meditation), for the texts distinguish (two meditations); as in other cases.

The Aitareyins declare with reference to the person in the sun, ‘ What I am, that is he ; what he is, that am

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.3.36 in this text

Sūtra

व्यतिहारो विशिंषन्ति हीतरवत्

vyatihāro viśiṃṣanti hītaravat

Sūtra translation

There is interchange (of ideas), for the texts distinguish; as in other cases.

There is no difference of vidyâ because both questions and answers have one subject-matter, and because the one word that possesses enjoining power proves

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 3.3.38 in this text

How Madhva’s text corresponds here is not yet settled.

Sūtra

व्यतीहारो विशिंषंति हीतरवत्

vyatīhāro viśiṃṣaṃti hītaravat

Sūtra translation

(It it proper to hold that Satya, the Lord, it tuperior to Prana, (at it may be seen from) supplying the elliptit, for they (Chandogas) have added to Satya a ditfin- guithing element (particle') at in every other cate.

That the superiority of the Lord is declared in the passage would become evident on supplying the question and answer as in the previous

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