Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.246

c16.246

*(a)* “Recognition of the permanent in a transitory effect,” for example, that the earth is eternal (*dhruvā*), as also the sky with the moon and stars, etc. Under this Ignorance, “some deeming the elements permanent and longing to attain to their form, pay devotion to them, to the Paths, the Way of the Fathers, and the Way of the gods” [Vāchaspati].