Verses on Sāṃkhya 14.4

14.4

atrāha --- ayam antaraḥ praśno hi | yad uktaṃ pūrvasyām āryāyāṃ "triguṇam aviveki viṣayaḥ sāmānyam acetanaṃ prasavadharmi | vyaktam --- "tat katham evaṃ jñāyate 'vyaktam api triguṇatvādiyuktam | atrocyate ---

Here [the opponent] says: Indeed, this is an intermediate question. Regarding what was said in the previous verse: 'Having the three constituents, non-discriminating, an object, common, non-conscious, productive: the manifest [is thus]'—how then is it known that the unmanifest also is possessed of having the three constituents and so forth? To this it is replied: