Note 43 — INTRODUCTION. (continued 2)

Footnote 43:

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Translated according to the Bhâmatî. We deny, the objector says, the possibility of adhyâsa in the case of the Self, not on the ground that it is not an object because self-luminous (for that it may be an object although it is self-luminous you have shown), but on the ground that it is not an object because it is not manifested either by itself or by anything else.—It is known or manifest, the Vedântin replies, on account of its immediate presentation (aparokshatvât), i.e. on account of the intuitional knowledge we have of it. Ânanda Giri construes the above clause in a different way: asmatpratyayâvishayatveszpy aparokshatvâd ekântenâvishayatvâbbâvât tasminn aha@nkârâdyadhyâsa ity arthah. Aparokshatvam api kaiskid âtmano neshtam ity âsa@nkyâha pratyagâtmeti.