Pur. iii. 28. 41.] (Pura.na).

91. Those who study the path pointed out by the teacher, resting
upon a foundation of naught, and maintain with an empty
understanding that all is void and that all the recognized deities
are naught,--how can many words be uttered about them, for language
fails in a topic of naught; naught indeed is their wisdom, and
their fruit shall be also mostly naught.

92. There are words uttered by Vyasa in the Bharata condemning this
doctrine of the nothingness of all things [Footnote: The name
__sunyavada__ is generally applied to Buddhism; here it is applied by
way of reproach to the Vedanta, which is called in the Padma-pura.na
"secret Buddhism" (__prachchhanna.m Bauddham__)]; "their bodies are
composed of the quality of darkness, and verily darkness shall be
their end;" [Footnote: Mahabh. xii. 9690.]

93. These words which were uttered of old by Kapila in the presence
of the sage Syumarasmi [Footnote: This dialogue occurs in Mahabh. xii.
9604, ff.], were afterwards recounted by Vyasa in the Bha.rata.

94. This theory of theirs concerning a void of qualities in Him who
is the ocean of qualities [Footnote: The Ramanujas and the Madhvas
deny that the Supreme Being is __nirgu.na__,--thus there is a
quotation in the Sarva Darsana S. p. 64. "Vasudeva is the supreme
Brahman, endowed with auspicious attributes" (cf. p. 69, l. 18;
p. 73, l. 2)], --it is but like the blind hurrying of sheep after
the ewe that leads them! Having made a separate commentary of their
own on the Sutras they deceive those who follow their doctrine.