The Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus c4.s1.t2.43

c4.s1.t2.43

As a typical and familiar instance of the variety of characteristic properties (or energies) that may result from variations in accompaniment or grouping, the Sánkhya-Pátañjala points to the various kinds of fruit acids and juices, all originating from one and the same Bhúta (water) with different accretions of earthy matters (भूविकाराः). In the same way, though we speak of only five classes of Tanmátras and atoms, the infinite variety of the world results from the infinitely varied collocations of the three original Guṇas which underlie Tanmátra and atom alike. (सत्त्वरजस्तमसां अपकर्षकाष्ठापन्नः संघातः परमाणुरिति—न्यायवार्त्तिक, उद्योतकर, reporting the Sánkhya view. अयुतसिद्धावयवः संघातः परमाणुरिति—व्यासभाष्य, Sutra 44, Pada III. परमाणुः सामान्यविशेषात्मा अयुतसिद्धावयवभेदानुगतः समुदायः—व्यासभाष्य, Sutra 44, Pada IV. योग्यतावच्छिन्ना धर्मिणः शक्तिरेव धर्मः—*ibid.*, Sutra 14, Pada III. यो धर्मेषु अनुपाती सामान्यविशेषात्मा सोऽन्वयी धर्मी—*ibid.*, Sutra 14, Pada III.)