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6. 1-3 The Kaul school, acc. to our author, held that the five elements, earth, water, fire, air and space were identical with Brahma, Visnu, Rudra, Isvara and Siva respectively. For the claims of the Kaul teachers see Jasa. I, 6, Karpura Mañjiri Act I.
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6. 4-11 Various objections are raised against the school that considers the supreme principle or the soul as devoid of qualities ( Niskala or Nirguna).
7. 1 'Can boiled grains be turned back into great millet or butter into milk? How can the accomplished' (absolved) wander again through the cycle of births involving the burden of taking and abandoning the body'?
The personality of Siva, which acc. to the author, is accepted by Gautama and Kanada, is a contradicton in terms i. e. an impossibility (gaganarabinda) as shown in the following lines.
7.5
-The reference is to the Pauranic account of Siva's cutting off the head of Brahma (Aja). He is said to have thrown the head at a spot in Benares which is known as kapala mocana after the incident.
8.3
etc. The reference is to Vyasa the reputed author of the puranas, who is said in Mahabharata to have cohabited with the wives of Vicitravirya. 9.7 The reference is to the injunction 'याज्ञिकी हिंसा हिंसा न भवति'.
13. 12-13 These are the twenty five tattvas of the Sankhya system.
11. 1-6 We have here the tenets of the Nastika-Vada of Barhaspatya, the central principle of which is that life is produced by the conglomeration of matter without any metaphysical self.
11. 11. The four forms of life are देव, मनुष्य, नरक and तिर्यक् the fifth being See I, 12, 3, notes.
मोक्ष.
12. 4. For the sixteen principles of meditation, see Tatt. Sutra VI, 24. 12. 5. The eight gunas are-
मधुमांसमधुत्यागैः सहाणुव्रतपञ्चकम् ।
अष्टौ मूलगुणानाद्दुर्गृहिणां श्रमणोत्तमाः ॥ RKS 66.
12. 6 Belief in false divinities, scriptures and teachers are respectively called देवमूढता, शास्त्रमूढता and गुरुमूढता ।
The eight prides are
ज्ञानं पूजां कुलं जातिं बलमृद्धिं तपो वपुः । अष्टावाश्रित्य मानित्वं स्मयमा हुर्गतस्मयाः ॥
RKS. 25.
12. 7-8. The six undeserving (Anayatana) are a, a, and devotees of these three.
12. 9. etc-Paying a particular regard for co-religionists is called Vatsalya,
12. 10. Absence of शंका, कांक्षा and विचिकित्सा are the first three of the eight requisites of — Right Faith ' the remaining five being अमूढदृष्टित्व, उपगूहन, स्थितिकरण,
and, for an exposition of which see, RKS. 11-18.
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