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Ixii
 
it will suggest for refutation the purvapaksha
that atman may be asserted ultimately to be
jnatri. The sutra also suggests the siddhanta.
For the pratyaya "" (Ka) has both meanings
namely karta and bhava. The former is exclu-
ded, as already stated, by the reason assigned in
Sutra, "अत एत्र "" for the same reason." So the
latter is the meaning to be taken. The question
for consideration is whether the Vyakarana
Sastra justifies the usage. The authority we
need is supplied by the Vartika Sutra, "";
and "" has the meaning of bhuva, not karta.
So Dr. Thibaut's objection is futile to the last
degree.
 
The next sutra taken up for discussion by
Dr. Thibaut is ii, 3, 43. He calls the sutra
important. And why ? "The soul is distinctly
said to be a part (amsa) of Brahman." But this
cannot dispose of the argument of the entire
work of Badarayana, nor of such passages of the
Upanishads as declare that the Atman is "
Ai ard" "without parts, without activity,
&c."-Sutra 50, if strictly in-
terpreted, states the pratibimba-vada, the doctrine