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# Verses on Sāṃkhya 23.2

Māṭharavṛtti 23.2

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [23.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.samkhya.samkhyakarika!mathara-vrtti.23.2)

prakṛter mahāṃs tato 'haṅkāras tasmād gaṇaś ca ṣoḍaśakaḥ /  
tasmād api ṣoḍaśakāt pañcabhyaḥ pañca bhūtāni //

> From nature \[arises\] the great \[principle\]; from that, egoity; from that, the group of sixteen;  
> and from that group of sixteen, from five \[of them\], the five elements. // 22  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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