The Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus c4.s1.69

c4.s1.69

2. This subtile matter, the Mass, charged with sound-potential, receives an accretion of Mass from the rudiment-matter (Bhútádi), and by condensation and collocation evolves the Ákása Bhúta, the atomic Ákása, the proto-atom charged with the specific Energy of the sound-stimulus (actual vibratory motion). (स एष भूतादिः शब्द-तन्मात्रात् सदितीयात् शब्दगुणकम् आकाशं ससर्ज्ज । तथाच अहङ्कारशब्दतन्मात्राभ्यां मिलित्वा आकाशं सृज्यते—योगवार्त्तिक on the Vishnu Purána passage, Sutra 14, Pada IV.)