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(49) He does not accept the view that the Sruti that “One should kill those animals which have Agni and Soma for their Devas,"
"grat aĀTU VYAIT Ħa" is an exception to the Sruti, “One should not kill any animal,”
"Affeią nafwarfa " He does not believe that all Himsa is Himsa except the Himsa in a Yajna. On the contrary he holds the universal proposition that all Himsa is Himsa, and Vedic sacrifices being tainted by Himsa cannot free the Purusha from pain. If Hinisa recommended in the Vedas were not Himsa, he says, there should have been no necessity for Yudhishthira to perform Prayash; chitta for slaughter in battle, for that was enjoined in the Vedas as a Dharma of the Kshatriyas. .. Again in Samkhya Karika 2, we read .. दृष्ट वदामुत्रविकः सह्य विशुद्धि क्षयातिशय युक्तः । : The Anushravika means of removing Duhkha is like the visible means, because it is tainted by Avishuddhi or Himsa -not enjoined by the Shastraš.
Here too we again meet with the same objection on the part of a follower of Kapila that the Sruti
«quat ataTU UŞATT HA is not an exception to the Sruti " माहिस्यात् सर्वाभूतानि "
Gaudapada in his Bhashyä. of Samkhya Karika supports the view of Kapila on the authority of the
