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LAWS OF MANU.
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5. But from ether, modifying 76. But from ether, modifying itself, springs the pure, powerful itself, springs the pure, powerful wind, the vehicle of all perfumes; wind, the vehicle of all perfumes; touch is considered to be that is held to possess the its quality.
quality of touch. 6. Next from wind, modifying 7 7. Next from wind, modifying itself, proceeds the brilliant light itself, proceeds the brilliant light which illuminates and is white; which illuminates and dispels that is declared to possess the darkness; that is declared to quality of colour;
possess the quality of colour. 7. And from light, modifying 7 8. And from light, modifying itself, (comes) water which pos- itself, is produced) water, desesses taste; from water smell clared to possess the quality and earth; (such) is declared of taste; from water earth, (to be) the creation of(them) which has the quality of
smell; such is the creation
in the beginning. 8. The qualities of each 20. Among them each earlier-named (element) en- succeeding (element) acter each of the later-named quires the quality of the preones, and whatever place in ceding one, and whatever place the sequence) each of them oc- (in the sequence) each of them cupies, even so many qualities it occupies, even so many qualities is declared to possess.
it is declared to possess. 9. If some, perceiving a smell in water through a want of care, attribute (that quality to water), one must know that it belongs to earth alone, (and that it is) adventitious in water and wind.
10. Those Âtmans of seven kinds, which possess various powers, were severally unable to create beings without fully uniting themselves.
11. These great Âtmans, uniting and mutually combining
1 The position of this verse in the Mahâbhârata makes the conjecture, put forward in the note to the translation, that the correct position of Manu I, 20 is after verse 78, exceedingly probable.
According to Nilakantha, the seven Åtmans, called above, ver. 3, the seven mind-born ones, are Mahat, Ahamkara, and the five subtile elements.
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