^251:3 it is impossible to find terms corresponding to maya and mayin. Maya means making, or art, but as all making or creating, so far as the Supreme Self is concerned, is phenomenal only or mere illusion, maya conveys at the same time the sense of illusion. In the same manner mayin is the maker, the artist, but also the magician or juggler. What seems intended by our verse is that from the akshara which corresponds to brahman, all proceeds, whatever exists or seems to exist, but that the actual creator or the author of all emanations is Isa, the Lord, who, as creator, is acting through maya or devatmasakti. Possibly, however, anya, the other, may be meant for the individual purusha.

^252:1 See before, III, 4.

^252:2 Sankara does not explain this verse again, though it differs from III, 4. Vignanatman explains pasyata by apasyata, and qualifies the Atmanepada as irregular.

^252:3 B. reads yasmin devah, not A.

^252:4 I read tasmai instead of kasmai, a various reading mentioned by Vignanatman. It was easy to change tasmai into kasmai, because of the well-known line in the Rig-veda, kasmai devaya havisha vidhema. Those who read kasmai, explain it as a dative of Ka, a name of Pragapati, which in the dative should be kaya, and not kasmai. It would be better to take kasmai as the dative of the interrogative pronoun. See M. M., History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 433; and Vitana-sutras IV, 22.

^252:5 Cf. III, 7.

^253:1 In former ages, Sankara.

^253:2 Because both the Brahmarshis, the holy seers, and the deities find their true essence in Brahman.

^253:3 We should say, like cream from milk.

^253:4 Or the high-minded.

^253:5 See III, 13.

^253:6 Atamas, no darkness, i.e. light of knowledge.

^253:7 See on the difficulty of translating sat and asat, to on and to me on, the remarks in the Preface.

^253:8 Referring to the Gayatri, Rig-veda III, 62, 10; see also Svet. Up. V, 4.

^253:9 See Muir, Metrical Translations, p. 198; Maitr. Up. VI, 17.

^253:10 B. reads hrida manisha manasabhiklipto, yat tad vidur; A. hridi hridistham manasaya enam evam vidur.

^254:1 Dakshina is explained either as invigorating, exhilarating, or turned towards the south.