Note 8 — INTRODUCTION.

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The second interpretation given on pp. 184-5 of the Sanskrit text (beginning with apara âha) Deussen considers to be an interpolation, caused by the reference to the Paingi upanishad in Sa@nkara's comment on I, 3, 7 (p. 232). But there is no reason whatsoever for such an assumption. The passage on p. 232 shows that Sa@nkara considered the explanation of the mantra given in the Paingi-upanishad worth quoting, and is in fact fully intelligible only in case of its having been quoted before by Sa@nkara himself.—That the 'apara' quotes the Brihadáranyaka not according to the Kanva text—to quote from which is Sa@nkara's habit—but from the Madhyandina text, is due just to the circumstance of his being an 'apara,' i.e. not Sa@nkara.