{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe34/sbe34219.htm","path":"hin/sbe34/sbe34219.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe34/sbe34219.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras, commentary by Sankaracharya (SBE34), tr. by George Thibaut [1890]\n43. And (it is) not (observed that) the instrument is produced from the agent.\nThe Bh\u00e2gavata hypothesis is to be rejected for that reason also, that observation never shows us an instrument, such as a hatchet and the like, to spring from an agent such as Devadatta, or any other workman. But the Bh\u00e2gavatas teach that from an agent, viz. the individual soul termed Sankarshana, there springs its instrument, viz. the internal organ termed Pradyumna, and again from this offspring of the agent another instrument, viz. the ahank\u00e2ra termed Aniruddha. Such doctrines cannot be settled without observed instances. And we do not meet with any scriptural passage in their favour.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras, Sankaracharya, comm.: Second Adhy&aci...","type":"page"}