Verse 170

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:

शौर्यात्मजादयो येऽपि धातारः परिकल्पिताः ।
एतेनैव प्रकारेण निरस्तास्तेऽपि वस्तुतः ॥ १७० ॥

śauryātmajādayo ye'pi dhātāraḥ parikalpitāḥ |
etenaiva prakāreṇa nirastāste'pi vastutaḥ || 170 ||

‘Śauri’ (Viṣṇu), ‘the Self-Born’ (Brahmā), and others who have been assumed to be the creators (of the world)—all become actually rejected by the above reasonings.—(170)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

This objection against the ‘Spirit’ should be taken as rejecting all those ‘creators’—Śauri and the rest,—who have been postulated by other people.—

This is what is shown in the following Text:—[see verse 170 above]

‘Śauri’ is Viṣṇu; ‘Self-born’ is Brahmā;—‘and others’ is meant to include ‘Intelligent Time’, which also is postulated by some people.

[There is a lacuna in the Text here.]

End of the Chapter on ‘Spirit’ as the Creator.