Hindu Medicine c8.216

c8.216

This material substratum becomes the receptacle of the incorporeal life-monad which "is called by many metaphorical terms" describing it as the inner ruling principle, as "he who knows the field," "the knowing one," "the touching one," "the hearer," "the tasting one," "the primeval inner man" (puruṣa), "the doer or agent," "the walker," "the witness," "the supporter," "the speaker."