आगमे ब्राह्मे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

And on account of definite rules.

‘Performing works here (i.e. in this life) let a man wish to live a hundred years; thus work will not cling to thee, man; there is no other way than that’ (Īśa. Up. 2); ‘The

Agnihotra is a sattra lasting up to old age and death; for through old age one is freed from it or through death’ (Śat. Brā. XII, 4, 1, 1); from such definite rules also it follows that knowledge is merely supplementary to works.

Against all these objections the Sūtrakāra upholds his view in the following Sūtra.