56 PRASNOPANISHAD-BHASAYA [VI. 2. sah. The prince tūşnim : without obtaining the best result of his question pravavrāja : quickly went away; by this is indicated his own shame. rathena .....: by the statement that he went away getting upon his chariot, is indicated that he was a ruler. Tam tvā.. ... : I ask you about the same person of sixteen parts kväsau puruşah: Where is he ? that is, in which is he? Here the question about the place of the 'person' is asked with a view to determine whether the person is the indivi. dual soul or the supreme Self. This may be seen. VI. 2. Tasmat sa hovāca. Thrivāntahsarire soumya sa puruso yasminnetah sodaśa kalāh prabhavantiti To him he (Pippalada) said "Here itself within this body youth is that Person whom these sixteen parts are capable" (of helping) COMMENTARY: tasmai saḥ......: The meaning is clear. Here within the body vartate : exists, must be supplied By the statement that the person is supported by a space limited by the body, it must be taken to have been stated that the individual soul jiva) is that person. If it be doubted: how can the jiva himself be stated to be the one with sixteen parts, since this possession of sixteen parts and the agency to create them can be fully referred to the supreme Self alone? He (Pippalada) replies: yasmin....... In which person etāk: the following, beginning with breath' and coding with 'name' şodasa kalah: the sixteen parts
