{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38240.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38240.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38240.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n31. And hence also a scriptural passage as to non-proceeding according to liking.\nThere is also a scriptural passage prohibiting unlawful food, the purpose of which it is to stop procedure therein according to one's liking, viz. in the Samhit\u00e2 of the Kathas, 'Therefore a Br\u00e2hmana is not to drink spirits.' This text also is more appropriate if we take the passage, 'To him who knows this,' as an arthav\u00e2da.--Hence passages of that kind are arthav\u00e2das, not injunctions.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Third Adhy\u00e2ya. Fourth P\u00e2da.: III, 4, 31","type":"page"}