560 Mr. CoLEBiiooKE on the Philosophy of Indian Sectaries. 



savour, odour, and tactility ; to aqueous, colour, savour, and tactility ; to 

 igneous, both colour and tactility ; to aerial, tactility only.* 



The Bauddhas do not recognise a fifth element, dcdsa, nor any substance 

 so designated ; nor soul {jiva or dtman') distinct from intelligence (chitta) ; 

 nor any thing irreducible to the four categories above-mentioned. 



Bodies, wliich are objects of sense, are aggregates of atoms, being 

 composed of earth and other elements. Intelligence, dwelling within 

 body, and possessing individual consciousness, apprehends objects, and 

 subsists as self; and, in that view only, is (dtman) self or soul. 



Things appertaining to the elements, (bhautica'), the second of tiie pre- 

 dicaments, are organs of sense, together with tlieir objects, as rivers, 

 mountains, &c. Tliey are composed of atoms. This world, every thing 

 which is therein, all which consists of component parts, nuist be atomical 

 aggregations. They are external ; and are perceived by means of organs, 

 the eye, the ear, &c., which likewise are atomical conjuncts. 



Images or representations of exterior objects are produced ; and by 

 perception of such image or representations, objects are aj)pre]iended. 

 Such is tiie doctrine of the Sautrdnticas upon this point. But tlie Vaib- 

 hdshicas acknowledge the direct perception of exterior objects. Both 

 tliink, tliat objects cease to exist wlien no longer perceived : they have 

 but a brief duration, like a flasli of lightning, lasting no longer than the 

 perception of them. Their identity, then, is but momentary : the atoms 

 or component parts arc scattered ; and the aggregation or concourse was 

 but instantaneous. 



Hence these Buddhists are by their adversaries, tiie orthodox Hindus, 

 designated as Piirna — or Sarva-vainds' teas, ' arguing total perishableness ;' 

 while the followers of Canade, who acknowledge some of their categories 

 to be eternal and invariable, and reckon only otliers transitory and change- 

 able ; and who insist that identity ceases with any variation in the composition 

 of a body, and that a corporeal frame, receiving nutriment and discharging 

 excretions, undergoes continual change, and consequent early loss of 

 identity, are for tliat particular opinion, called Ardha-vairuis icas, ' arguing 

 half-perishableness.' 



The second head of the arrangement before-mentioned, comprising 

 internal objects, viz. intelligence, and that which to it appertains, is again 

 distributed into five scandhas, as follow : — 



♦ Ramanuj. on Br. Sutr, 



