[Footnote 168:  Bhogyasya bhokt/ris/eshatvat tasyayatanatvam uktam a/s/a@nkyaha na keti, jivasyad/ri/sh/t/advara dyubhvadinimittatvezpi na sakshat tadayatanatvam aupadhikatvenavibhutvad ity artha/h/.  Ananda Giri.]

[Footnote 169:  It would not have been requisite to introduce a special Sutra for the individual soul—­which, like the air, is already excluded by the preceding Sutra—­if it were not for the new argument brought forward in the following Sutra which applies to the individual soul only.]

[Footnote 170:  If the individual soul were meant by the abode of heaven, earth, &c., the statement regarding I/s/vara made in the passage about the two birds would be altogether abrupt, and on that ground objectionable.  The same difficulty does not present itself with regard to the abrupt mention of the individual soul which is well known to everybody, and to which therefore casual allusions may be made.—­I subjoin Ananda Giri’s commentary on the entire passage:  Jivasyopadhyaikyenavivakshitatvat tadj/n/anezpi sarvaj/n/anasiddhes tasyayatanatvadyabhave hetvantara/m/ va/k/yam ity a/s/a@nkya sutre/n/a pariharati kuta/sk/etyadina.  Tad vya/k/ash/t/e dyubhvaditi.  Nirde/s/am eva dar/s/ayati tayor iti.  Vibhaktyartham aha tabhya/m/ keti.  Sthitye/s/varasyadanaj jivasa/m/grahezpi katham i/s/varasyaiva vi/s/vayatanatva/m/ tadaha yaditi.  I/s/varasyayanatvenaprak/ri/tatve jivap/ri/thakkathananupapattir ity uktam eva vyatirekadvaraha anyatheti.  Jivasyayatanatvenaprak/ri/tatve tulyanupapattir iti sa@nkate nanviti.  Tasyaikyartha/m/ lokasiddhasyanuvadatvan naivam ity aha neti.  Jivasyapurvatvabhavenapratipadyatvam eva praka/t/ayati kshetraj/n/o hiti.  I/s/varasyapi lokavadisiddhatvad apratipadyatety a/s/a@nkyaha i/s/varas tv iti.]

[Footnote 171:  As might be the prima facie conclusion from the particle ‘but’ introducing the sentence ‘but he in reality,’ &c.]

[Footnote 172:  It being maintained that the passage referred to is to be viewed in connexion with the general subject-matter of the preceding past of the chapter.]

[Footnote 173:  And would thus involve a violation of a fundamental principle of the Mima/m/sa.]

[Footnote 174:  A remark directed against the possible attempt to explain the passage last quoted as referring to the embodied soul.]

[Footnote 175:  Pi/nd/a/h/ sthulo deha/h/, pra/n/a/h/ sutratma.  Ananda Giri.-The lower Brahman (hira/n/yagarbha on sutratman) is the vital principle (pra/n/a) in all creatures.]

[Footnote 176:  Sa/m/yagdar/s/ana, i.e. complete seeing or intuition; the same term which in other places—­where it is not requisite to insist on the idea of ‘seeing’ in contradistinction from ‘reflecting’ or ’meditating’—­is rendered by perfect knowledge.]

[Footnote 177:  Translated above by ’of the shape of the individual soul.’]

[Footnote 178:  Pa/n/ini III, 3, 77, ‘murtta/m/ ghana/h/.’]