NOTES. 147 deity, should worship another, and perhaps less exalted, partis not clear ११ The student of advaitavada must be warned, too, against speaking of Brahman as God, which is mani- festly incorrect,-God being Brahma-associated-with- ignoranceI. Brahmasutrabhasya 2. 3. 45. He is described as निरतिशयोपाधिसम्पन्नः । The learned Dr. Ball- antyne however, made this mistake again and again, and Mr. Baba Padmanji, in his excellent Manual of Hinduism, says “ईश्वराविषयींच्या ज्ञानाला ब्रह्मज्ञान म्हणतात," which, though true in respect of the followers of Rama nuja, is manifestly inaccurate as far as the more nume rous advaitavadins are concerned. On this ground, the term Pantheism as applied to this system is clearly a misnomer, and only approximately represents the views of its adherents. A more accurate name would be Pan-Brahmanism, but it is too clumsy to be adopted, No activity is attributed to Is'vara as जगत्कारणं, and the Vedanta knows of no such thing as creation, that is the production of something not already existing in another form. Page 9. सकलाज्ञानावभासकवत् In every edition from that of DrBallantyne downwards, a full stop has been placed after व्यपदिश्यते, and the words अस्य सर्वज्ञत्वं have been added after the above compound, so as to make the sentence mean his omniscience is in consequence of his being the illuminator of the whole of ignorance. I have not, however, found any manuscript authority for this, the reading being invariably as I have given it. The words अस्य सर्वज्ञत्वं seem to have been imported in order to make the passage coincide in form with bhatk relating to प्राज्ञः Page 10प्राज्ञ is here said to be 'parviscient' (प्रायेण अज्ञः as Ramatirtha explains it on p. 94) in opposition to the omniscient ईश्वरः This sense of the word is directly
