446 Mr. CoLEBROOKE on the Philosophy of the Hindus. 



including affirmation.* The Naiydyicas, or followers of Gotama, count 

 four, viz., the foregoing together with comparison. The Prdbhdcaras, as 

 just now observed, admit five. And the rest of the Mimdnsacas, in both 

 schools, prior and later Mimdnsd, enumerate six.t It does not appear, 

 that a greater number has been alleged by any sect of Indian philosophy. 



The first six lectures of Jaimini's Mimdnsd treat of positive injunction: it 

 is the first half of the work. The latter half, comprising six more lectures, 

 concerns indirect command ; adapting to a copy, with any requisite modifi- 

 cations, that which was prescribed for the pattern or prototype. 



The authority of enjoined duty is the topic of the first lecture : its 

 differences and varieties, its parts (or appendant members, contrasted with 

 the main act), and the purpose of performance, are successively considered 

 in the three next, and complete the subject of " that which is to be per- 

 " formed." The order of performance occupies the fifth lecture ; and 

 qualification for its performance is treated in the sixth. 



The subject of indirect precept is opened in the seventh lecture generally, 

 and in the eighth particularly. Inferrible changes, adapting to the variation 

 or copy what was designed for the type or model, are discussed in the ninth, 

 and bars or exceptions in the tenth. Concurrent efficacy is considered in 

 the eleventh lecture ; and co-ordinate effect in the twelfth : that is, the 

 co-operation of several acts for a single result is the subject of the one ; 

 and the incidental effect of an act, of which the chief purpose is different, 

 is discussed in the other. 



These, which are the principal, topics of each lecture, are not, however, 

 exclusive. Other matters are introduced by the way, being suggested by 

 the main subject or its exceptions. 



In the first chapter of the first lecture occurs the noted disquisition of 

 the MimaTisd on the original and perpetual association of articulate sound 

 with sense.t 



" It is a primary and natural connexion," Jaimini affirms, " not merely a 

 " conventional one. The knowledge of it is instruction, since the utterance 

 " of a particular sound conveys knowledge, as its enunciation is for a parti- 



• Page 95-96. f Vtd. Sic'ham. 



X A passage cited by writers on the dialectic Nt/aya from the disquisition on the perpetuity 

 of sound (see page 1 15), is not to be found in Jaimini's suiras: it must have been taken from 

 one of his commentators. 



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