{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38151.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38151.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38151.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n8. If it be said (that the vidy\u00e2s are one) on account of (the identity of) name; (we reply that) that is explained (already); moreover that (identity of name) is (found in the case of admittedly separate vidy\u00e2s).\nHere it might be said that after all the unity of the two vidy\u00e2s discussed must be admitted, since they are called by one and the same name, viz. 'the science of the udg\u00eetha.'--But this argument is of no avail against what has been said under the preceding S\u00fbtra. The decision there advocated has the advantage of following the letter of the revealed text; the name 'udg\u00eetha-vidy\u00e2' on the other hand is not a part of the revealed text, but given to the vidy\u00e2s for convenience sake by ordinary men for the reason that the word 'udg\u00eetha' is met with in the text.--Moreover, we observe that admittedly separate meditations such as the two mentioned under the last S\u00fbtra have one and the same name. Similarly altogether separate sacrificial performances, such as the agnihotra, the darsap\u00fbrnam\u00e2sa, and so on, are all comprised under the one name K\u00e2thaka, merely because they are recorded in the one book called K\u00e2thaka.--Where, on the other hand, there is no special reason for assuming the difference of vidy\u00e2s, their unity may be declared on the ground of identity of name; as, e.g. in the case of the Samvargavidy\u00e2s.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Third Adhy\u00e2ya. Third P\u00e2da.: III, 3, 8","type":"page"}