Brahma Sutras (Shankaracharya)
by George Thibaut | 1890 | 203,611 words
English translation of the Brahma sutras (aka. Vedanta Sutras) with commentary by Shankaracharya (Shankara Bhashya): One of the three canonical texts of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. The Brahma sutra is the exposition of the philosophy of the Upanishads. It is an attempt to systematise the various strands of the Upanishads which form the ...
II, 3, 11
11. Water (is produced from fire).
We have to supply from the preceding Sūtra the words 'thence' and 'for thus the text declares.'--Water is produced from fire; for the text says, 'it sent forth water' (Ch. Up. VI, 2, 3), and 'from fire (sprang) water' (Taitt. Up. II, 1). These explicit statements allow no room for doubt[1]. The Sūtrakāra, however, having explained the creation of fire, and being about to explain the creation of earth, propounds this Sutra in order to insert water (and thus to point out its position in the sṛṣṭikrama).
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[1]:
So that the Sutra might possibly be looked upon as no called for.