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results sensibility and thought, as the inebriating property is deduced from 

 a ferment and other ingredients." 



To the foregoing arguments of the Lucdyaticas or Chdrvdcas, the answer 

 of the Veddntins is, that ' thought, sensation, and other properties of soul or 

 consciousness, cease at the moment of death, while the body yet remains ; 

 and cannot therefore be properties of the corporeal frame, for they have 

 ceased before the frame is dissolved. The qualities of body, as colour, &c., 

 are apprehended by others : not so, those of soul, viz. thought, memory, &c. 

 Their existence, while body endures, is ascertained : not their cessation 

 when it ceases. They may pass to other bodies. Elements, or sensible 

 objects, are not sentient, or capable of feeling, themselves ; fire, though hot, 

 burns not itself; a tumbler, however agile, mounts not upon his own 

 shoulders. Apprehension of an object must be distinct from the thing 

 apprehended. By means of a lamp, or other light, objects are visible : if 

 a lamp be present, the thing is seen ; not so, if there be no light. Yet 

 apprehension is no property of the lamp ; nor is it a property of body, 

 though observed only where a corporeal frame is. Body is but instrumental 

 to apprehension.' 



Among the Greeks, Diceearchus of Messene held the same tenet, which 

 has been here ascribed to the Lucdyaticas, and other followers of Charvaca, 

 that there is no such thing as soul in man ; that the principle, by which he 

 perceives and acts, is diffused through the body, is inseparable from it, and 

 terminates with it. 



Mdhestvaras and Pds'upatas. 

 The devoted worshippers of Siva or Mahes'wara, take their designation 

 from this last-mentioned title of the deity whom they adore, and whose 

 revelation they profess to follow. They are called Mdhes'waras, and (as it 



seems) Siva-bhdgavatas. 



The ascetics of the sect wear their hair braided, and rolled up round the 

 head like a turban ; hence they are denominated (and the sect after them) 

 Jdt'ddhdri, ' wearing a braid.' 



The Mdhes'waras are said to have borrowed much of their doctrine from 

 the Sdnc'hya philosopliy : following Capila on many points ; and the 

 theistical system of Patanjali on more. 



They have branched into four divisions : one, to which the appellation of 

 Saivas, or worshippers of Siva, especially appertains : a second, to which 



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