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passion! The light in the sun is goodness; the heat is the quality of passion; and its eclipse on the Parvan? days must be understood to be of the quality of darkness. So in all shining bodies, there exist three qualities. And they act by turns in the several places in several ways. Among immovable entities, darkness is in the form of their belonging to the lower species; the qualities of passion are variable ; and the oleaginous property is of the quality of goodness 3. The day should be understood to be threefold, the night is stated to be threefold, and likewise months, half-months, years, seasons, and the conjunctions. Threefold are the gifts given, threefold the sacrifices performed, threefold are the
"This illustrates the existence of the qualities as one body: Even the enlightening sun, which embodies the quality of goodness, produces effects which belong to the other qualities. The fear and sorrow which evil-doers, that is thieves, feel, is an effect of the rising of the sun, which appertains to the quality of darkness, and the heal as being the cause of vexation and consequent delusion to travellers, appertains to the quality of passion.
* I.e. the days of the moon's conjunction or opposition.
"I understand this to mean that in the 'immovable entities' the three qualities co-exist; the birth in the lower species is an effect of darkness; the variable qualities, viz. the heal, &c., as Arruna Misra says, are the properties of passion ; and the oleaginous properties among them appertain to goodness, as, says Arguna Misra, they are sources of pleasure (cf. Gilâ, p. 118). Nilakanina says, Immovable entities being very unintelligent, darkness is very much developed among them,' but this last, as an in:erprolation of tiryagbhavagata, appears to me to be alike unwarranted and inappropriate here.
• Does this mean the period about the close of one and beginning of another yuga or age? That is the only sense cjusdem generis with the words preceding it that I can think of; yet the jump from years to yuga-sandhis is a long one.
• Cf. Gitâ, p. 120. With reference to some, at least, of the things enumerated here, the division would be rather sanciful.
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