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Foot notes:
1. The topic has been dealt with in great detail by George Thibaut in the VedantaSutra, Part I, SBE XXXIV, 2nd reprint Delhi, 68, introduction. pp. 103 f
2. Vide History of Indian Philosophy-II: The Creative Period, S. K. Belvalkar and R, D, Ranade, Poona 27, pp. 278-79.
3. Mund-Up. 1.2.1.
4. Ibid., 1.2.6 c-d.
5. Ibid., 1.2.5 and 1.2. 6a-b.
6. Ibid, 1.2.7. 'Old age and death' is the rendering of Jaramytyum according to many translators; but, to mean that, the compound should have been in dual number. (The difference, however, is mostly verbal.)
7. Mund.Up. 1.2.8 Cp. Kathopanisad 1.2.5 which, however, prescribes the same fate for those who do not believe in the concept of 'the other world'.
8.......into circles of birth and death, evidently.
9. Vide Mund. Up 1.211.
10. Rajas may signify passion or passionate activity and its consequences,
11. Cf. I'sadidasopanisada or Ten Principal Upanisads [with the commentary of Sankaracarya], Delhi, 1964, part I, p. 506.
12, Vide his commentary on Mund. Up. 1.2.11.
13. Isadidasopanisadah, op cit, part 1, p. 506.
14. Vide B. K Chattopadhyaya, The Teachings of the Upanisads, University of Calcutta, 1952, p. 33.
15. History of Indian Philosophy: II, op. cit., p. 279.
16. ....karmasu ca'mytam': Mund.Up. 1.1.8.
17. Ibid., 2,1.10.