Verses on Sāṃkhya 5.1

5.1

evameṣāṃ vyaktāvyaktajñānāṃ trayāṇāṃ padārthānāṃ kaiḥ kiyadbhiḥ pramāṇaiḥ kena kasya vā pramāṇena siddhirbhavati / iha loke prameyavastu pramāṇena sādhyate yathā prasthādibhirvrīhayastulayā candanādi / tasmāt pramāṇamabhidheyam /

Thus, of these three categories—the manifest, the unmanifest, and the knower—by what and by how many means of valid cognition, or by what means of valid cognition for which one, is establishment [achieved]? In this world an object to be cognised is established by a means of valid cognition, just as grains of rice are [measured] by a prastha and so on, or sandalwood and the like by a scale. Therefore, the means of valid cognition must be explained: