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Nothing new can be found here in the discussion regarding other-world. The emphasis is on the utpăda-vyaya-dbrauvya nature of the soul, as against the Nyāya, Sāmkhya-Yoga, Vedānta view of its being absolutely unchanging.
(1969) Illustration of a pitcher of gold - Compare : Ghatamaulisuvarņārthi nášot pādasthitişvisam;
śokapramodamådhyasthyam jano yati sahetukamAptamimamsă, 59 of Samantabhadra.
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The basis of the doubt expressed here is the Mimāmsá belief that Vedic rites ought to be performed as long as one lives. We find a similar doubt expressed in the Nyāya system by way of the prime-facie view. See Nyāya-sūtra 4-1-59, Bhāşya and other commentaries.
(1974) The commentator has put alongside two different upanişadic expressions and has perhaps deliberately changed the text of 'satyam jñānain anantam' into'satyam jñānam anantaram' and construed it so as to get the meaning he wants here by explaining 'anantaram' as equivalent to "aparam’.
(1975) Nirvāņa (extinction) of the lamp--- We find a gātha corresponding to the stanza of the Saundarananda, quoted in the Madhyamikavịtti, p. 216:
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