[The Roman figures denote the 1ain di४isions indicated in tle translation and the figures within brackets denote the secti011s]] 1 (1). Jayatrtha the great waita Vedantir offers his prayers t0 Lord Vispu and asks for his grace. It is the traditional practice work the as against NOTES the propose to write in the opening verse of the work. Advaitims' contention that it is illusory, The C011 The for its object the perfect 13rahman (Madllhva points out that the term1 Brahman means the ab0dle of infinite auspicious attributes). The reasor) for the assertion of the perfection of 13rahman s sta.ted in the second Sutra. 1.e., because He is the creator, sustainer, etc., of this; universe. If the created universe proves to be unrel, its creator's perfection would also become unreal ; once His perfection bec0131es unreal meditation of him1 is meaningless. In order to establisll the necessity and propriety of the meditation o advocated in the W८datf( s?!।४८७, Jayatirtha prop0ses to establish the absolute reality of the universe through an elaborate criticism and refutation of the Advaitims' argument establishing the illustory nature of the universe. The first 1ime in the invocatory verse is the substance of the f the universe, He is the efficien
