Laghustutih (vrittisameta) 255

255

That very [prakṛti], its qualities agitated by the lord's power called parā, in accordance with time and karma, creates mahat. Then [it creates] the principle of egoity (ahantattva). Then the ego (ahaṅkāra), having become [active], creates the five beginning with sound, the five beginning with space, the ten senses, and the inner instrument. There, first [it creates] the inner instrument consisting of the powers of will, knowledge, and action, called mind, intellect, and ego; then the sense organs which are the instruments of knowledge and action; then what is to be known and the effect,