Brahma-Sūtra 3.1.27

English of translation of Brahmasutra 3.1.27 by Roma Bose:

“From the womb the body.”

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

The body arises from the womb.

Here ends the first quarter of the third chapter in the Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha, an interpretation of the Śārīraka-mīmāṃsā texts by the reverend Nimbārka.

Śrīnivāsa’s commentary (Vedānta-kaustubha)

The soul, possessed of the remnants of its work, and separated from one who performs the act of generation, enters into connection with a womb in the fifth oblation and thereby attains a body. Hence it is established that the texts preceding it, i.e. those designating that the soul becomes the ether and the rest, prove only that it comes to be connected with them respectively.

Here ends the section entitled “Occupied by others” (6).

Here ends the first quarter of the third chapter in the holy Vedānta-kaustubha, a commentary on the Śārīraka-mīmāṃsā by the reverend teacher Śrīnivāsa.

Résumé

The first section of the third chapter contains 27 sūtras and 6 adhikaraṇas, according to Nimbārka, Śaṅkara, Rāmānuja, Bhāskara and Śrīkaṇṭha; and 28 sūtras and 6 adhikaraṇas according to Baladeva, who divides sūtra 8 in Nimbārka’s commentary into two separate sūtras.