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tradition can grant that the Sutras of Badara-
yana were ever accepted by any school of Vedic
thinkers otherwise than as containing the essence
of the doctrine of the Upanishads. In India,
the Vedas have been all in all, and every system
of theistic doctrine and every religious text-book
of every such system have accepted their
authority in toto. The Sutras of Badarayana, in
particular, are intended as a presentation of the
teaching of the Upanishads in a reasoned form
and free from all doubts, imperfections, and in-
consistencies. As Sankaracharya points out,
"वेदान्तवाक्यकुसुमग्रथनार्थत्वात्सूत्राणाम् वेदान्तवाक्यानि हि सूत्रै-
रुदाहृत्य विचार्यन्ते । वाक्यार्थविचारणाध्यवसाननिर्वृत्ता हि ब्रह्मावग-
तिर्नानुमानादिप्रमाणान्तरनिर्वृत्ता " "The Sutras have
merely the purpose of stringing together the
flowers of the sentences of the Vedanta. The
sentences of the Vedanta referred to in the Sutra
are discussed by us here. For the realisation of
Brahman is produced by the determination,
consequent on discussion, of the purport of the
sentences of the Vedanta, not by other sources
of knowledge such as inference, &c." The
Sutras owe the authority they command to the
fact that they contain in a convenient, concise,
.9
xi
tradition can grant that the Sutras of Badara-
yana were ever accepted by any school of Vedic
thinkers otherwise than as containing the essence
of the doctrine of the Upanishads. In India,
the Vedas have been all in all, and every system
of theistic doctrine and every religious text-book
of every such system have accepted their
authority in toto. The Sutras of Badarayana, in
particular, are intended as a presentation of the
teaching of the Upanishads in a reasoned form
and free from all doubts, imperfections, and in-
consistencies. As Sankaracharya points out,
"वेदान्तवाक्यकुसुमग्रथनार्थत्वात्सूत्राणाम् वेदान्तवाक्यानि हि सूत्रै-
रुदाहृत्य विचार्यन्ते । वाक्यार्थविचारणाध्यवसाननिर्वृत्ता हि ब्रह्मावग-
तिर्नानुमानादिप्रमाणान्तरनिर्वृत्ता " "The Sutras have
merely the purpose of stringing together the
flowers of the sentences of the Vedanta. The
sentences of the Vedanta referred to in the Sutra
are discussed by us here. For the realisation of
Brahman is produced by the determination,
consequent on discussion, of the purport of the
sentences of the Vedanta, not by other sources
of knowledge such as inference, &c." The
Sutras owe the authority they command to the
fact that they contain in a convenient, concise,
.9