Sarvadarshanasangraha 16.73

16.73

We reply: No; because many causes of joy, such as the safe delivery of a beloved wife, present themselves just like the birth of a son, an ascertainment by elimination is impossible. And in usages directed toward an already established entity, such as “A son is born to you,” the usage is explained by supplying an action, as in “[Close/open] the door, the door!” Furthermore, based on their well-known status as a sacred treatise, the Vedāntas cannot have an already established entity as their purport; for only sentences directed toward activity or cessation from activity are well known to be a sacred treatise. As has been said by the Bhaṭṭa master: