{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38012.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38012.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38012.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n11. Water (is produced from fire).\nWe have to supply from the preceding S\u00fbtra the words 'thence' and 'for thus the text declares.'--Water is produced from fire; for the text says, 'it sent forth water' (Kh. Up. VI, 2, 3), and 'from fire (sprang) water' (Taitt. Up. II, 1). These explicit statements allow no room for doubt 2. The S\u00fbtrak\u00e2ra, however, having explained the creation of fire, and being about to explain the creation of\nearth, propounds this Sutra in order to insert water (and thus to point out its position in the srishtikrama).\n22:2 So that the Sutra might possibly be looked upon as no called for.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Second Adhy\u00e2ya. Third P\u00e2da.: II, 3, 11","type":"page"}