Matharavritti 73
English (machine translation) 73
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73.1
The topics that are in the Seventy are indeed the topics of the entire Ṣaṣṭitantra, / devoid of illustrative stories and free from polemical debates.
73.3
Those fundamental categories that were stated in the Ṣaṣṭitantra have been explained, recounted, in the Seventy. The sixty divisions were explained earlier. In the āryā verse 'The division of darkness is eightfold,' and where it is stated 'There are five divisions of error,' these are the fifty intellectual constructs; and these are the other ten fundamental [topics]. For thus it is said:
73.4
Existence, oneness, and purposiveness; being for the sake of another, otherness, and then cessation; / union, separation, plurality of spirits, and the continuance of the body along with the remaining functioning.
73.5
There, by these five reasons, [beginning with] "Because of the finite measure of specific individuals," the existence of primordial matter, its oneness, and its purposiveness are established. By "Because composite things are for the sake of another," purposiveness for another is stated. By "[Because] birth, death, and instruments [are individually assigned]," the multiplicity of spirits is established. By "Holding a body like the whirling of a wheel," continuance is established—these are the ten. "Five errors," twenty-eight kinds of incapacity, ninefold contentment, and eightfold attainment make fifty. Combined together, there are sixty fundamental categories in the Ṣaṣṭitantra. A treatise (tantra) is that in which fundamental categories are woven (tantryante), that is, explained; a treatise of sixty fundamental categories—such is the connection. "Bereft of tales and devoid of polemics with others": debate with an opponent is "polemics with others," and it is devoid of that. Thus it is concluded.