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90 vind, nir', the negative preposition) considered means calm and unruffled. Max Muller says that according to Pinini, the right form would be Nirvâhah. Colebrooke says • In its ordinary acceptaion as an adjective it siguifies extinct, as a fire which is yone vut, set as a luminary which has gone down, siefunct as a saint who has passed away.”
Tax Muller seems strongly to be of opinion that Virvana does not mean the extinction of being but as the completion of being, Speaking of the Nirvana of the Vedantists, he says that the Vedantist does not admit the Nirvana to be either absorption or annihilation; the new knowledge adds nothing to what the soul always was, nor does it take away anything except that nescience which for a time darkened the self-knowledge of the soul.' About the Buddhistic Nirvana, he emphatically says that it does not “ mean in the early Buddhistic writings the complete blowing out of the individual soul,
but rather the blowing out and subduing of Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
