108 Mr. H. T. Colebrooke on the Philosophy of the Hindus. 



of a pair or triad, &c. is of course transitory : it results from comparison, as 

 duad or triad does. 



8. Conjunction is a transient connexion. 



It is an universal quality, incident to all substances ; and is transitory. 



It implies two subjects, and is threefold: arising from the act of either 

 or of both, or else from conjunction; being simple, or reciprocal, or me- 

 diate. The junction of a falcon percliing, which is active, with the perch 

 whereon it settles, which is passive, is conjunction arising from the act of 

 one. Collision of fighting rams, or of wrestlers, is conjunction arising 

 from the act of both. Contact of a finger with a tree occasions the con- 

 junction of the body with the tree ; and this is mediate. 



9. Disjunction. It is the converse of conjunction ; necessarily preceded 

 by it, and, like it, implying two subjects. It is not the mere negation of 

 conjunction, nor simply the dissolution of it. 



The knowledge of this quality, as well as of its counterpart, is derived 

 from perception. 



It is an universal quality, incident to all substances ; and is simple, re- 

 ciprocal, or mediate. A falcon, taking fliglit from a rock, is an instance 

 of disjunction arising from the act of one of two subjects : the active from 

 the inactive. The parting of combatants, rams or wrestlers, is an example 

 of disjunction arising from the act of both. Disjunction of the body and 

 the tree, resulting from tiie disunion of the finger and the tree, is mediate. 



10. — 11. Priority and posteriority. These qualities, being contrasted and 

 correlative, are considered together. They are of two sorts, concerning 

 place and time. In respect of place, they are proximity and distance ; in 

 regard to time, youth and antiquity. The one concerns (murta) definite 

 bodies, coqsisting of circumscribed quantity ; the other affects generated 

 substances. 



The knowledge of them is derived from comparison. 



Two masses being situated in one place, nearness is deduced from the 

 conjunction of one with place as associated by comparison : referring pri- 

 marily to the person of the spectator ; or, secondarily, to other correlatives 

 of place. Where least conjunction of conjunct things intervenes, it is 

 nearness ; where most does, it is remoteness. Thus, Praydga is nearer to 

 Mat'kurd, than Cast ; and Cdsi remoter from it, than Praydga. 



In like manner, one of two masses, not restricted to place, is young, as 

 deduced from the association of the object with time, by comparison dis- 



