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Swami Samantabhadra. Besides this, there is no specific indication in the literature or context of Aapta-Mimamsa that the verse in question is being followed or adopted as a basis for thought, just as it is not clear from the introduction or the preface of the "Vasunandi-Vritti" that Aapta-Mimamsa was written with the auspicious verse (Mokshamargasya Netaramyaadi) in mind. It is found to be somewhat different from the introduction of the Ashta-Sahasri and it is clear from this that Samantabhadra himself is sitting to praise the omniscient Lord - not to support or explain someone else's praise. He has seen the omniscient Lord through his mental perception and requested him, "O Bhagavan, the excessive narration of greatness is called praise and your greatness is beyond the senses and not the subject of my perception, so how can I praise you?" When the Lord replied, "O Vatsa, just as other scholars understand my greatness due to the arrival of gods and their movement in the sky, why don't you do the same?" Samantabhadra then said, "Bhagavan, you do not become great to me due to this reason - I do not consider you worthy of worship due to the arrival of gods and their movement in the sky - because this reason is contradictory," and saying this, he
1. The words from the introduction of the Ashta-Sahasri, which are quoted in the footnote, show that the praise of the Aapta in the auspicious verse given at the beginning of the Nisshreya-Shastra is done through extraordinary qualities; as if the Aapta Bhagavan has asked Samantabhadra, "I am great because of the divine arrival and other powers, so why didn't the sage who wrote the Nisshreya-Shastra praise me by showing such extraordinary qualities?" In response, Samantabhadra has said the first verse of Aapta-Mimamsa.