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include fan-mind the central co-ordinating organ which corresponds to the 'central sense or common sense admitted by Aristotle in his ‘De Anima'.
The five Mahâbhutas or gross elements V. The five viz. earth, water, fire, air and ether, are resMahâbhutas.
pectively produced by the corresponding Tanmatras or suitable essences, viz. smell, taste, form, touch and sound. The gross elements have each an organ corresponding to it. Thus, earth, water, fire, air and ether have for their organs, nose, tongue, eyes, skin and ear, respectively.
These five Mahabhutas and the eleven organs constitute what the Sankhyas call the sixteen vikåras-variations.
The five gross elements are the ultimate outward limits of cosmic evolution just as Prakriti is the ultimate limit in the opposite direction.
Last of all, we mention, Purusha, the
25th iattva ; we do so, not because Purusha VI. Purusha
is chronologically the last which it is certainly not, but because it is outside the cosmic evolution and is a distinctly separate principle by itself. It is, as the
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