Verses on Sāṃkhya 24.1

24.1

yaduktaṃ vyaktāvyaktajñavijñānānmokṣa iti tatra mahadādibhūtāntaṃ trayoviṃśatibhedaṃ vyākhyātamavyaktamapi bhedānāṃ parimāṇādityādinā vyākhyātaṃ puruṣo 'pi saṃghātaparārthatvādityādibhirhetubhirvyākhyātaḥ / evametāni pañcaviṃśatitattvāni yastrailokyaṃ vyāptaṃ jānāti tasya bhāvo 'stitvaṃ tattvaṃ yathoktam /
pañcaviṃśatitattvajño yatra tatrāśrame rataḥ /
jaṭī muṇḍī śikhī vāpi mucyate nātra saṃśayaḥ /
tāni yathā prakṛtiḥ puruṣo buddhirahaṃkāraḥ pañcatanmātrā ekādaśendriyāṇi pañcamahābhūtāni ityetāni pañcaviṃśatitattvāni / tatroktaṃ prakṛtermahānutpadyate tasya mahataḥ kiṃ lakṣaṇamityetadāha /

As for what was stated: “from the discriminative knowledge of the manifest, the unmanifest, and the knower comes release,” there the twenty-three-fold division ending with the elements, beginning with the intellect, has been explained. The unmanifest too has been explained through [reasons] such as “because of the finite measure of individual manifestations.” Pure consciousness too has been explained through reasons such as “because composite things are for the sake of another.” Thus, he who knows these twenty-five principles which pervade the three worlds—his state, his existence, is the truth. As has been stated:
“Knowing the twenty-five principles, in whatever stage of life he may dwell,
whether he wears matted hair, is shaven, or wears a topknot, he is released; there is no doubt in this.”
They are as follows: primordial nature, pure consciousness, intellect, ego-maker, the five subtle elements, the eleven sense faculties, and the five gross elements—these are the twenty-five principles. In that regard it was said: “from primordial nature arises the great principle.” What is the defining characteristic of that great principle? To this, he says: