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TATTVA-KAUMUDI
Twenty-eight forms of Disability
Karika XLIX
The injuries of the eleven-organs, together with those of the Will are pronounced to constitute Disability; the injuries of the Will (itself) are seventeen-due to the reversion of contentment and success'.
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sense-organs
ness,
(215) The injuries of the organs are mentioned only as causes of so many injuries of the Will, The eleven caused and not as, by themselves. independent by injuries to the forms of Disability. These injuries-Deafinsensibility to touch, blindness, numbness of tongue, insensibility of the olfactory nerves, dumbness, palsy of hands, lameness, impotency, intestinal paralysis and idiocy,--consequent on the failure of the several sensc-organs-auditory and the rest-are the eleven forms of disability. The disability of the Will in regard to its own function also due to the said injuries of the scnses, is of eleven kinds, as it is due to eleven causes. These two have been mentioned together with those of Buddhi (itself) in cordance with the theory of non-difference of cause and effect. (216) Having thus described the disabilities of the Will, arising from the of the senseby the reversion organs, the disabilities of the Will by itself are next descubed.-" With injuries of the
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injury
Seventeen caused
of contentment and success
Will." Question- How many Disabilities are there of the Will itself ?" Answer "Seventeen are the injuries of the Will;" why? "due to the reversion of contentment and success. Contentment being nine-fold, the disabilities caused by its reversion are also nine-fold; and similarly success being eight-fold,-the disability caused by its reversion is eightfold, thus making the seventeen disabilities proper of the Will.
(217) The author next enumerates the nine forms of Contentment:
