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sense ; nor so many as eleven, which the Smw'hyas affirm, comprehending, 

 with the senses, the organs of action, which they reckon five.* 



Mind is the instrument, which effects the apprehension of pain, pleasure, 

 or interior sensations ; and, by its union with external senses, produces 

 knowledge of exterior objects apprehended through them, as colour, &c. 

 but not independently of those senses, for outward objects. 



Its existence is proved by singleness of sensation : since various sensations 

 do not arise at one time to the same soul. They only seem to do so when 

 passing rapidly, though successively ; as a firebrand, whirled with velocity, 

 seems a ring of fire. 



It is single ; that is, for each soul, one : not so many minds as there are 

 external senses. When it is conjoined with any one of the outward organs, 

 knowledge is received through that organ : when not so conjoined, none 

 comes through that sense, but through any other with which it then is 

 associated.! 



It is not infinite, being imperceptible to the touch, like the etherial ele- 

 ment, as the Mimunsa maintains; J but it is minutely small, as an atom. 

 Were it infinite, it might be united with every thing at once ; and all sen- 

 sations might be contemporaneous. It is imperceptible to sight, touch, and 

 other senses, and is inferred from reasoning, as follows : There must be 

 an instrument of apprehension of pain and pleasure ; which instrument 

 must be other tlian the sight, or any external sense ; for pain and pleasure 

 are experienced though siglit be wanting. Such instrument of painful or 

 pleasurable sensation is termed mind (nianas). 



It is eternal, and is distinct from sou!, as well as from body : with which 

 it is merely conjoined. 



It is reckoned by Canade among substances ; and is the substratum of 

 eight qualities, none of which are peculiar to it, being all common to other 

 substances : viz. number, quantity, individuality, conjimction, disjunction, 

 priority, subsequence, and faculty. § 



4. Next in Gotama's arrangement are the (^art'ha) objects of sense : that 

 is, of the external senses : and he enumerates odour, taste, colour, feel, and 

 sound, whicli are the peculiar qualities of earth, and the rest of the elements 

 respectively.il 



* Gau. on Cts. f Got. 1. 1. 3. 8. and 3. 2. 6. % Pad. Dip. 



§ Gau. on Cc's. || Got. 1. 3. 5. 



