Sri Vallabhacharya - Pushti Darshan

58 Sri Vallabhacarya and his Doctrines
also one Sutra 10 explained by Vallabha in the Bhasya and Vithala has not at all hesitated in incorporating his own
interpretation in the body of the Bhasya. This difference .of opinion is seen in the. portions of the Bhasya. The Sutras
of the, first two and a half Adhyayas are more or less interpreted in the most natural manner, generally in keeping with'
the spirit of the Upanishads. The writer of the first portion is always conscious of the fact that the Brahma-sutras of
Badarayana try to harmonize different conflicting passage of the Upanishads and the interpretation of the Sutras must
be at any rate in keeping with the general tenor of the Upanishads. Most of the quotations in the portion, alleged to
have been written by Vallabha, are, therefore, from the Vedas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, the Upanishads, the
Srauta.,Sutras, Manu, Gita and rarely from Bhagavata, 11 even though the last one is looked upon by Vallabha as one
of the four authoritative works of his Sampradaya. Even the word .Pusti ('grace') the most important word in the
religion founded by Vallabha, is mentioned only once I and that too as a side remark 12 Some of the Sutras containing
the word S×ëçÌ or any form of the. S×ë are taken to refer to some
Upanishad passage or to some Gita verse. It is only once that the reference is made to Bhagavata. 18 The first portion
again contains many references to Âêßü×è×æ¢#æ All these characteristics
10. Øæ#æÌ÷÷ Ð (ý. #ê 1.11). Read the Bhasya thereon and the remark made by the commentator.
11. The total member of quotations from Bhagavata is about 13, out of which only 3 are found in the first two and a
half Adhyayas, while the remaining are to be found in the latter portion.
12. on II. 3.42)
13. The Sutra ¥ç S×ØüÌð occurs four times. In the first two cases the reference is to Gita, in the third case to Manu
and in the last case to Bhagavata. occurs thrice. In the first place it refers to Katha and Svetasvatara, in the
last two places the reference is to Bhagavata.