Mr. H. T. CoLEBROOKE on the Philosophy of the Hindus. 1 1 1 



result of doing that which is forbidden, is vice. They are qualities of the 

 soul ; imperceptible, but inferred from reasoning. 



The proof of them is deduced from transmigration. The body of an 

 individual, with his limbs and organs of sense, is a result of a peculiar qua- 

 lity of his soul ; since this is the cause of that individual's fruition, like a 

 thing which is produced by his effort or volition. The peculiar quality of 

 the soul, which does occasion its being invested with body, limbs, and 

 organs, is virtue or vice : for body and the I'est are not the result of effort 

 and volition.* 



24. The twenty-fourth and last quality is faculty (sanscdra). This com- 

 prehends three sorts. 



Velocity (yega), which is the cause of action. It concerns matter only ; 

 and is a quality of the mental organ, and of the four grosser elements, 

 earth, water, light, and air. It becomes manifest from the perception of 

 motion. 



Elasticity {st'hitist'hdvaca) is a quality of particular tangible, terrene ob- 

 jects ; and is the cause of that peculiar action, whereby an altered thing is 

 restored to its pristine state ; as a bow unbends, and a strained branch re- 

 sumes its former position. It is imperceptible ; but is inferred from the 

 fact of the restitution of a thing to its former condition. 



Imagination (bhdvand) is a peculiar quality of the soul, and is the cause 

 of memory. It is a result of notion or recollection ; and being excited, 

 produces remembrance : and the exciting cause is the recurrence of an 

 association ; that is, of the sight or other perception of a like object. 



III. The next head in Canade's arrangement, after quality, is action 

 (c<2r»ie). 



Action consists in motion, and, like quality, abides in substance alone. 

 It affects a single, that is, a finite substance, which is matter. It is the 

 cause (not aggregative, but indirect) of disjunction, as of conjunction : that 

 is, a fresh conjunction in one place, after annulment of a prior one in 

 another, by means of disjunction. It is devoid of quality ; and is tran- 

 sitory. 



Five sorts are enumerated : to cast upward ; to cast downward ; to push 



* Tare. Bhish. 



