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sition or nature of a thing; Sthiti, duration, or measure of time, through which life continues; Anubhága, feeling, or sensible quality; Pradeśa, atomic individuality. The characters of this principle are illustrated by a confection: 1. According to its natural properties it cures phlegm, bile, &c.; 2. it remains efficient but for a given period; 3. it is sweet, bitter, sour, &c.; and 4. it is divisible into large or small proportions, retaining each the properties of the whole mass.
XI. The last of the nine principles is Moksha, or liberation of the vital spirit from the bonds of action; it is of nine sorts:
1. Satpadaprarúpaña. The determination of the real nature of things, the consequence of a finite course of progress through different stages of being and purification. It is attainable only by living creatures of the highest order, or those having the five organs of sense; by those possessed of the Trasakaya, or a body endowed with consciousness and mobility; by those beings which are engendered, not self-produced; by those which have reached the fifth Charitra, or exemption from human infirmity; by those which are in the Ksháyika Samyaktwa, or that state of perfection in which elementary or material existence is destroyed; by those no longer requiring material existence; by those who have acquired the Kevalajnúna, the only knowledge, and the Kevaladarsana, or only vision.
2. Dravyapramána, as regulated by the fitness of the things or persons to be emancipated.
3. Kshetrapramána, depending on the essentiality
