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XV. The samkhya doctrines
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I-am-ness, passion, dislike, attachment; (2) by reason of the distinction of Brāhmic, Prajapatic, Saumic, Indra-like, Gandharvic, Yākşic, Rākşasic, and Paisacic, the eight fold creation of divinities: (128) (3) by reaso1 of the distinction of domestic animals, wild animals, birds, creeping things, immobiles, the fivefold (creation of) lower animals; (4) there being no intention of mentioning the subdivisions of Brāhmaṇa-hood, etc., mankind a single (creation), so that the creation of creatures is of 14 kinds; (5) by reason of the distinction of the 11 injuries to organs, deafness, maimedness, blindness, imbecility, lack of smell, dumbness, lameness of arms, lameness of leg, impotence, intestinal disorder, madness, -and the 17 mental injuries. namely, the reverse of the 9 'contentments' (lusti), and the reverse of the 8 'achievements' (siddhi), - 'Potency' (sakti) of 28 kinds; (6) and content ments' (rusti), - 4 belonging to the self, termed Prakrti, material, time and enjoyment, also to be mentioned by the alternative terms 'water', 'fluid', 'flood' and 'rain'; five external, cessation of sound, etc. - objects, results of seeing the faultiness of gaining, keeping, loss, enjoyment, hurt, these to be designated by the words 'bank', 'good bank', 'further and nearer bank', 'non-supreme water', 'supreme water': so making nine kinds of 'contentment'; (7) with the 'three repellings of pain as the three chief siddhis, called exhilaration, delight, happiness, likewise the five siddhis, secondary as being means of repelling of pain, namely study, sound (speech), investigation (üha), obtaining of friends, giving, called 'clear', 'very clear', 'clear-clear', 'delightful', 'ever-joyous thus making the eightfold siddhi; (8) by reason of the distinction of steadfastness, faith, ease, desire to know, cognizing, - the five sources of karma, and so on; and (9) the self-control and the special self-controls, etc., well-known from the Tattva-kaumudi and Gauda pāda-bhāşya 38), etc., - the contradictoriness of these should be conceived. This is the meaning of the verse.
8) Commentaries by Vācaspatimisra and Gaudapāda respectively, on the Samkhya-kärikā.
