Matharavritti 74
English (machine translation) 74
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74.1
Here [an opponent] says: How can this treatise of few words be an expresser of the whole [doctrine]? In response to this, it is said:
74.2
Therefore, this treatise is viewed in brief and is not deficient in meaning; / and it is like the reflection of the vast-formed treatise cast in a mirror.
74.3
"Therefore" is the reason: because it is the Ṣaṣṭitantra. "Viewed in brief" means a work in concise form. "Treatise": that by which one is instructed [and turned away] from the wrong path is a treatise; it bears great fruit like the water of a sacred ford. The agent, the experiencer, the experienced, and liberation are investigated here. Or, it is a treatise because it instructs regarding sufferings. "This" indicates this Seventy [verses]. "And is not deficient in meaning": the meaning is that it is not deficient in the examination of the sixty fundamental categories. "Of the treatise": just as there may be the viewing of a great form even in a small mirror, likewise the manifestation of the entirety of the Ṣaṣṭitantra has been stated even in a small treatise—this is the meaning.
74.4
Thus ends the commentary composed by the teacher Māṭhara on the Seventy [Verses] on Sāṅkhya spoken by the teacher Īśvarakṛṣṇa.