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# Verses on Sāṃkhya 21.2

Māṭharavṛtti 21.2

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [21.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.samkhya.samkhyakarika!mathara-vrtti.21.2)

tasmāt tatsaṃyogād acetanaṃ cetanāvad iva liṅgam /  
guṇakartṛtve 'pi tathā karteva bhavaty udāsīnaḥ //

> Therefore, from that conjunction, the unconscious manifest sign becomes as if conscious; / likewise, although agency belongs to the constituents, the indifferent one becomes as if an agent. //  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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