The Vedanta school also accepts this line of argument.
Thus the concept of apaurusheyatva ("being unauthored") came to be the guiding force behind the Vedanta schools.
Logic, grammar, Mimamsa and allied subjects form main areas of study in all the Vedanta schools.
The Vedanta schools of Hinduism reject the concept of creation ex nihilo for several reasons, for example:
This resulted in the formation of numerous Vedanta schools, each interpreting the texts in its own way and producing its own sub-commentaries.
Taken together, they are the basis of the Vedanta school.
In this respect Advaita Vedanta differs from other Vedanta schools.
Works of the early Vedanta schools do not contain references to Vishnu or Shiva.
Later these were referred to as the three canonical texts of reference of Hindu philosophy by other Vedanta schools.
Shankara's goal was to revive the Vedanta school "from the standpoint of orthodox Brahmanism":
