Footnote 171:[(return)]
As might be the primâ facie conclusion from the particle 'but' introducing the sentence 'but he in reality,' &c.
Footnote 172:[(return)]
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:[(return)]
And would thus involve a violation of a fundamental principle of the Mîmâmsâ.
Footnote 174:[(return)]
A remark directed against the possible attempt to explain the passage last quoted as referring to the embodied soul.
Footnote 175:[(return)]
Pindah sthûlo dehah, prânah sûtrâtmâ. Ânanda Giri.-The lower Brahman (hiranyagarbha on sûtrâtman) is the vital principle (prâna) in all creatures.
Footnote 176:[(return)]
Samyagdarsana, 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:[(return)]
Translated above by 'of the shape of the individual soul.'
Footnote 178:[(return)]
Panini III, 3, 77, 'mûrttam ghanah.'
Footnote 179:[(return)]
So that the interpretation of the pûrvapakshin cannot be objected to on the ground of its involving the comparison of a thing to itself.
Footnote 180:[(return)]
So that no objection can be raised on the ground that heaven and earth cannot be contained in the small ether of the heart.