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to Advaita Vedantian theory, on the other hand, the doctrine
of female and male (Purus aprak峁泃ivada), of Samkhya system of
philosophy has been stated in the stotras. Although stotras
of such type are not upto the mark from the point of view of
poetic excellence, they mark the highest intellectual exce-
llence. In many places of the stotras, the influence of all
philosophical theories, propounded earlier, is distinctly
found. As a result, we find both Samkhyan and Vedantian
theory of philosophization _ according to their methods
(Prakriya) 7 in the stotras. Though the discussion of each
and every philosophical doctrine may be done in a separate
book by mentioning different stotras, we are trying to give
an acquaintance of philosophical thoughts by briefly dis-
cussing different stotras. Firstly, we shall confine our
discussion to the Puranic era, yet among all Puranas, we
take first the Visnupur膩峁嘺, the Sivapurana, Srimadbh膩gavata,
the Devibhagavata only for our discussion.
In the Visnupura峁嘺, Bhagavan Visnu has been described
as the original cause of the entire universe. It appears from
philosophical thoughts in connection with the discussion of
the law of causation that an action is greater (sthula) than
a cause; in other words, that which is a subtle form of an
action is deemed to be the proximate cause. To explain this,