Crossword-Solution: RVA 3 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

This so-called 'apűrva' can therefore be understood only with regard to its capability of bringing about the heavenly world.

Nor does the fact that intelligent beings are not capable of direct insight into the unseen principle--called 'apűrva,' or by similar names--which resides in the form of a power in sacrifices and other instrumental causes, in any way preclude their being agents in the construction of the world.

The apparatus of means to bring about the results thus being learnt from the text only, no person acquainted with the force of the means of proof will assent to that apparatus, as stated by the text, being set aside and an apűrva about which the text says nothing being fancifully assumed.

This entire question was indeed already decided in the Pűrva Mimâmsa-sűtras (II, 2, 1), but it is here argued again to the end of dispelling the mistaken notion that the Vedânta-texts aim at knowledge only, and not at the injunction of activities such as meditation.

The first is represented by the Pûrva-mîmâṃsâ-sûtras of Jaimini[771] which are called earlier (pûrva) not in the chronological sense but because they deal with rites which come before knowledge, as a preparatory stage.