1. Victorious is the garland-wearing foster-son of Nanda,--the
protector of his devotees,--the destroyer of the cruel king,--
dark-blue like the delicate tamala blossoms,--formidable with his
many outspread rays,--mighty with all his attendant powers,
[Footnote: The Bengali translation explains these as the internal
powers (__antara"nga__) Hladini, etc., and the external
(__bahira"nga__) Prahva, etc.]--and having his forehead radiant
like the moon.

2. This follower of the Pura.nas, who holds by his own belief,
reads to his heart's content the Pura.na in the morning, and he
listens devotedly with profound meditation, his whole mind intent
on the meaning of the book.

3. Having abandoned the doctrine of the oneness of the individual
and the Supreme Soul, he establishes by argument their mutual
difference; having used Sruti and Sm.riti as a manifold proof, he
employs Inference in many ways in the controversy.

4. This individual soul must be different from Brahman because it
is always circumscribed,--many are the similar arguments which are
to be acknowledged in the course of our reasonings.

5. "Might we not say that a jar and a web could be called identical
because both are cognizable?" [Footnote: There is a favourite
Naiyayik example of a __kevalanvayi__ middle term, "a jar is
nameable because it is cognizable as a web is."] But we cannot say
so in regard to these two things in question, for Brahman alone is
that which cannot be cognized.