teach prapadabhaud as reality, independently of the affirmative Vedantic texts (uidaudyas) referring to Brahman or that the latter texts should be taken to be subsidiary to the former. Sarvajia. tmamuni and Ramatirtha understand this to be Mandana's view, presumably because it is clearly deducible from Mandana's observations about the import of non-dualistic negative texts in the Brahmasiddhi. In this context, it is also pointed out in the Sapakarraka" that Mandana's interpretation of the Nidha payas obviates the need for having recourse to lased (secondary significative force) in the explanation of the meaning of Advaita texts.
Yo. Mandana's attitude towards Sankara, as far as it can be made out from his Branasiddhi, is that of a self-confident and self-complacent Advaitic teacher towards a rival Advaitic teacher, holding divergent views on certain questions; whereas Surasvara's attitude towards Samkara is, as frankly admitted by Suresvara himself, that of a devoted disciple to his Godlike master. One of the striking features of Mandana's Brahmasiddhi is that it is based chiefly on the basic texts of the Vedanta system-the Upanisads, the Bhagavad¢t and the Brahrashtras; while Survara's Vartika and the Niskarnya-siddhi are admittedly based on and intimately connected with Sankara's bhdas and other Advaitic works. In the exposition of the Advaita doctrine, Mandana does not own any special allegiance to any Advaita teacher and plays the role of a perfectly independent and self-reliant teacher of Advaita.
In the Brahanasiddh, there is absolutely no pp instance at all in
1 11 Sed. St-Anand, s.s. N०.83, chapter I, versen a० to a52 .
In the text of the Brahma asidhiPart I; page , the line
अध्यारोपापवादाभ्यां निष्प्रपद्ये प्रपञ्चयते ।
is found quoted, This line is found in the samudantasidatasarasagala
(95), which is attributed by some *cholars to Sankara; and the authenticity of this ork can be and has been challenged on very good grounds. In all the editions of Sahara's Bharya on the Bhagavadgit८, in the course of the commentary on verse 3,
chapter 13, Saha quote the line / अध्यारोपापवादाभ्यां extract from an earlier work, in this way =
तथाहि संप्रदायविदां वचनम् - अध्यारोपापवादाभ्यां निष्प्रपञ्च अपध्यते।
It is obvious, thereforethat the line अध्यारोपापवादाभ्यां
quoted by Mandana in the Brain arid¢hi, whi not taken from any of Sahas worta. Perhapsthis line was taken, both by Mandana and Baikata, from eiry-Sundara pfndya's Vardiafrom which Sankara has quoted three verses at the end of the Saskas- sayadawaabase. (See J.O.R.M., vol. , P. 2 to5)
