Proceedings and Transactions of the Fifth Indian Oriental Conference November 19 20 21 and 22 1928

Not only can the germs of the different schools be traced in the Upanisads themselves but if we recollect the fact that the Upanisads were not a sealed book for the centuries lying between their appearance and the compostion of the Sutras—that there had been other interpreters of the philosophy of the Upanisads who preceded the (1) Svami Prajnananauda--History of V edantism (in Bengali) p.69.8 [...] (i) In the first of the above groups of Sutras the dipute arises in connexion with the interpretation of the texts of Ch. [...] Jaimini is quoted as having derived the term Taigviinara' in such a way that it directly referred to Brahma without meaning the ordinary fire or digestive fire in the body ; whereas the author of the Sutras was disinclined to ignore the primary meaning of the term and derived the secondary meaning of Brahma by interprettion. [...] If as the name seems to imply he was the founder of the family of which the author of the Sutras was a more distinguished scion then it is very likely that many of his opinions were absorbed and assimilated in the Sutras without acknowledgment. [...] 4. Badatiyana:—This is the undisputed author of the Sams and his philosophy is the philosophy of the entire system of Sams.