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constituent principles', encircled by the eleven?, consisting of mind as the distinguishing power, and of the understanding as ruler, this is an aggregate made up of) eleven'. The three currents which are within this (city) support (it) again and again, and those three channels run on, being constituted by the three qualities. Darkness, passion, and goodness, these are called the three qualities, which are all coupled with one another, and likewise serve one another, which depend on one another, and attend on one another, and are joined to one another?. And the five constituent principles
1 The five gross elements of which the body is composed (cf. Mahâbhârata, Sânti Parvan, Moksha Dharma, chap. 183, st. i seq.) are developments of the unperceived principle, the Prakriti. Cf. Gîtâ, p. 112, where the words which remain (absorbed) in nature' have been inadvertently omitted after with the mind as the sixth.' As to the nine portals cf. Gîtâ, p. 65.
· The five active organs, the five perceptive senses, and the mind.
* This Arguna Misra takes to mean 'egoism.' Nilakansha takes the usual meaning, and adds, objects are produced from mental operations; distinguishing,' that is, manifesting as distinct entities.
• The eleven are, according to Arguna Misra, the three qualitics, the five gross elements, the group of organs and senses as one, egoism, and understanding.
• V'iz. the nadis, Idâ, Pingalâ, and Sushumna, Arguna Mista, who adds that they are respectively of the quality of darkness, passion, and goodness.
• The three nâdîs, says Arguna Misra, support the life-winds. Nilakantha takes the three currents to be the threefold inclination of the mind, viz. towards a pure piety, towards injuring other living creatures, and towards that mixed piety which requires the destruction of life for its performance. Nilakantha also has a different reading from Arguna Misra, which means are replenished' instead of support. And the three channels are, according to Nilakarila, the Samskaras, or effects of previous actions of piety or impicty.
I Coupled=always existing in association with one another ; serving=being necessary to the operations of one another; depending=supporuing one another like three staves, says Nilakanila;
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