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[sū 1 3 10.
ADH 3] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 157
warp and woof ?'''' (Bṛh. 3 8 6), the answer being given: '''In the
ether alono all that is inter-woven, warp and woof''' (Bṛh 3.8.7),
Gārgī asked again: '''In whom, verily, is the ether interwoven, warp
and woof''?' (Bṛh. 3 8 7). Then, the answer given was that the
support of (all things), beginning with the earth and ending with the
other, is the Imperishable, in the passage: 'He said: "That, verily, is
the Imperishable''' (Bṛh. 3.8.8) and so on. Thus, on account of
supporting the group of effects, beginning with the earth and ending
with the ether, known from the above question and answer, the
Imperishable is none but Brahman
Or else, (an alternative explanation of the sūtra;) "The end",
i.e. the limit or the cause, of the "ether", meaning the atmospheric
ether ¹, is the non-manifest pradhāna,—"on account of supporting
it". That is, the Imperishable,—mentioned as the support of that
which is indicated as the support of all objects in past, present and
future, in the passage beginning: 'That which is above' (Bṛh. 3.7 7);
which is denoted by the term 'ether'; and which has the names 'non-
manifest', 'subtle', 'pradhāna' and the rest,—is not pradhāna, but
Brahman alono ²
COMPARISON
Śaṁkara and Bhāskara
Interpretation of the term 'ambarānta' different, viz. '(all
things) ending with the ether' ³. Śaṁkara uses the term 'Brahman'
here ⁴, although evidently from his point of view Brahman cannot
be such a support, but Īśvara
¹ I.e the ether, in the ordinary sense, as distinguished from the ether which
denotes pradhāna
² Note that the first explanation given by Śrīnivāsa tallies with the expla-
nations of Śaṁkara and Bhāskara, the second with those of Rāmānuja and
Nimbārka and others
³ Ś B 1.3.10, p. 318 Bh. B. 1.3 10, p. 55. See Śrīnivāsa above.
⁴ P. 319, 'Na ca ayam ambarānta-dhṛtiḥ Brahmaṇo'nyatra saṁbhavati', etc.