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FIRST CHAPTER (Adhyāya)
FIRST QUARTER (Pāda)
Adhikarana 1: The section ontitled 'Enquiry'.
(Sūtra 1)
SŪTRA 1
"THEN, THEREFORE, AN ENQUIRY INTO BRAHMAN."
THE EXPLANATION OF THE BRAHMA-SŪTRAS ENTITLED VEDĀNTA-
PĀRIJĀTA-SAURABHA, COMPOSED BY THE REVEREND NIMBĀRKA.
An enquiry is to be instituted, at all times, into the Highest
Person,—Ramā's Husband, denoted by the term "Brahman", the
greatest of all because of His infinite, inconceivable and innate
nature, qualities, powers and so on,—by one who has studied the
Veda with its six parts¹; who has been assailed with doubt,
arising from texts which teach² that the fruits of works are both
transitory and eternal³; who has, for that very reason, enquired into
the science which is concerned with the consideration of religious
duties,⁴ and has, thereby, gained the knowledge determined therein⁵
regarding works, their kinds and their fruits; in whom, as a conse-
quence, there arisen a disregard (for worldly objects), that is the
result of a discrimination between the finitude and eternity of the
¹ The six parts are:—(a) Śikṣā or the science of proper articulation and
pronunciation, comprising the knowledge of letters, accents, quantity, the use
of the organs of pronunciation, and phonetics generally, but especially the laws
of euphony peculiar to the Veda, (b) Chandahs or treatises on metre;
(c) Vyākaraṇa or treatises on grammar; (d) Nirukta or treatises on the
explanation of difficult words; (e) Jyotiṣa or treatises on astronomy; and
(f) Kalpa or treatises on ceremonials. The first and second of these Vedāṅgas
are said to be intended to secure the correct recitation of the Veda, the third
and fourth the understanding of it, the fifth and sixth its proper employment
at sacrifice. M.W, p. 1016
² Prakṛṣṭena karoti iti prakaraṇam, tad-vad vākyam.
³ I.e. Whose mind is assailed with doubt owing to the contradictory
teachings regarding the fruits of works, some texts declaring that the fruits
of works are transitory, while others declaring that they are eternal. Cf.
V.K., 1.1.1.
⁴ I.e. the Pūrva-mīmāṁsā.
⁵ I.e. the Pūrva-mīmāṁsā.