________________ 32 MASAAKI HATTORI (V... hension of) the external object, because the purpose of purusa would be accomplished through the mind only. The perception as explained by the Samkhyas, thus being incapable of determining the nature of object, is not (to be recognized as] the means of valid cognition. This work is one of the fruits of joint research in "Common Basis and Interrelations among Scientific Systems of Classical India" (supervised by Prof. G. Matuo, Kyoto University), which was subsidized, for the year 1959/60, by the Ministry of Education, Government of Japan.
