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NAVA TATVA.
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NAVA TATVA SUTRA;
OR,
THE NINE PRINCIPLES OF THINGS.
The following are the Nine Principles of Things: (1) Animation ; (2) Inanimate Matter ; (3) Merit; () Demerit; (5) Appetite and Passion, and other provocatives to sin ; (6) Self-Denial, and other helps to virtue; (7) Means to free the Mind from worldly attachments : (8) Worldly Attachments; (9) Final Deliverance*.
Of the first and second of these there are fourteen varieties; of the third, forty-two; of the
* The original is as follows:- atsflat qui ratsaa Hatta fa=TUTT HETT The Sanskrit cquivalents are a la que ara 17 hat facit बंध मोक्ष तत्वं
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