Brahma Sutras (Nimbarka commentary)

by Roma Bose | 1940 | 290,526 words

English translation of the Brahma-sutra 2.2.26, including the commentary of Nimbarka and sub-commentary of Srinivasa known as Vedanta-parijata-saurabha and Vedanta-kaustubha resepctively. Also included are the comparative views of important philosophies, viz., from Shankara, Ramanuja, Shrikantha, Bhaskara and Baladeva.

Brahma-Sūtra 2.2.26

English of translation of Brahmasutra 2.2.26 by Roma Bose:

“(there can be no origination) from the non-existent, because op non-observation.”

Nimbārka’s commentary (Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha):

An entity does not arise from a non-entity, “on account of non-observation”.

Śrīnivāsa’s commentary (Vedānta-kaustubha)

It is assumed by the Buddhists that there is the origin of an entity from a non-entity. This is not reasonable. Why? Because the origin of pots and the rest from non-existent clay, etc. is never observed,—on the contrary, their origin from existent clay and the rest alone is observed.

Comparative views of Śrīkaṇṭha and Baladeva:

This is sūtra 25 in the commentary of Śrīkaṇṭha. He begins a new adhikaraṇa here, ending with the next sūtra, concerned with the refutation of the Sautrāntika school of the realist Buddhists. According to him, the preceding sūtras are concerned with the refutation of the Vaibhāṣika school only. But Nimbārka refutes these two schools together.

Baladeva also takes this sūtra as concerned specially with the refutation of the Sautrāntika school, though he does not begin a new adhikaraṇa since he takes the next sūtra to be referring to both the schools equally.

They interpret the sūtra in the same maimer, viz. (“There is no-origin of things from) the non-existent, on account of non-perception”. That is, the Sautrāntika view that an object is. inferred from the impressions left on our mind by it is absurd, for a momentary, and as such a non-existent, something cannot produce any impressions.[1]

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Brahma-sūtras (Śrīkaṇṭha’s commentary) 2.2.25, p. 92, Parts 7 and 8; Govinda-bhāṣya 2.2.26, p. 122, Chap. 2.

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