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(49) He does not accept the view that the Sruti that One should kill those animals which have Agni and Soma for their Devas,"
* पानी षोमीयं पशुमाल भेत" is an exception to the Sruti, “One should not kill any animal,"
* माहिस्यात् सर्वाभूतानि" He does not believe that all Himsa is Himsa except the Himsa in a Yajna. On the contrary he holds the universal proposition that all Himsa is Himsa, and l'edic sacrifices being tainted by Himsa cannot free the Purusha from pain. If Himsa recommended in the Vedas were not Himsa, he says, there should have been no necessity for Yudhishthira to perform Prayashchitta for slaughter in battlc, for that was enjoined in the Vedas as a Dharma of the Kshatriyas.
Again in Samkhya Karika 2, we read दृष्ट वदामुत्रविकः सद्य विशुद्धि यातिशय युक्तः ।
The Anushravika means of removing Duhkha is like the visible means, because it is tainted by Avishuddhi or Himsa not enjoined by the Shastras.
Here too we again meet with the same objection on the part of a follower of Kapila that the Sruti
“ goat ataTTI TYATE HA" is not an exception to the Sruti “ माहिस्थात् सर्वाभूतानि"
Gaudapada in his Bhashya of Samkhya Karika supports the view of Kapila on the authority of the
