Brahma Sūtra 4.1.17

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

अतोऽन्याऽपि ह्येकेषामुभयोः

ato'nyā'pi hyekeṣāmubhayoḥ

Sūtra translation

For (there Is) also (a class of good works) other than this, according to some. (There is agree- ment) of both (teachers) (as to the fate of those works.)

‘ For also one other than this,’ i. e. there is also a class of good works different from works of permanent obligation, viz.

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

अतोन्यापि ह्येकेषामुभयोः

atonyāpi hyekeṣāmubhayoḥ

Sūtra translation

According to some (a class of good works) other than these, of both kinds.

The text quoted above from one sâkhâ ('His friends enter upon his good deeds') refers to good works other than the Agnihotra and the

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

अतोऽन्यदपीत्येकेषामुभयोः

ato'nyadapītyekeṣāmubhayoḥ

Sūtra translation

Also (good) works other than this (i.e., other than the Akamya or the Prardbdha, or whatever is not desired to he retained by the wise) are destroyed, as some Sakhims read of that (of the destruction) of both.

Even the merit which is other than what is useful for the enhance experience of bliss in heaven becomes destroyed; so also what is

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