History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.43
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.43
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v7.c93.43
The observations of Śaṅkarācārya in introducing¹⁸⁹³ the last sūtra of the VS make it perfectly clear that he regarded Bādarāyaṇa as the author of the entire Vedāntasūtra. No satisfactory explanation is offered why it was necessary to mention Bādarāyaṇa nine times in the VS when all the 555 sūtras thereof are deemed to have been composed by Bādarāyaṇa, or why it was necessary to mention in a work containing about 2700 sūtras all deemed to be composed by Jaimini, the views of Jaimini five times when in all cases or at least in four out of the five cases the views are identical with the reputed author of the PMS. Only two theories are possible viz. to hold that there is no explanation or to hold that there were two Jaiminis and two Bādarāyaṇas.