344 ON THE LITERATURE 



The Mimanja, therefore, is in two parts, the Nydya 

 in two, and the Sdnchya in two ; and thefe fix fchools 

 comprehend all the doctrine of the theifts. 



Laft of all appears a work written by Buddha : and 

 there are alfo fix atheiftical fy Items of philofophy, enti- 

 tled Yogdchdra, Saudhdnta, Vaibhdfiica, Madhyamica, 

 Digambara, and Chdrvdc ; all full of indeterminate 

 phrafes, errors in fenfe, confufion between diftinct qua- 

 lities, incomprehenfible notions, opinions not duly 

 weighed, tenets deftructive of natural equality, contain- 

 ing a jumble of atheifm and ethicks ; diftributed, like 

 our orthodox books, into a number of fections, which 

 omit what oughttobeexpreffed, and exprefs what ought 

 to be omitted; abounding in falfe proportions, idle 

 proportions, impertinent proportions. Some affert, 

 that the heterodox fchools have no Updnga's ; others, 

 that they have fix Anga's, and as many Sdngas^ or 

 Bodies, and other Appendices. 



Such is the analyfis of univerfal knowledge, practical 

 and fpeculative. 



THE COMMENTARY. 



The firfl chapter of a rare Sanfcrit Book, entitled 

 Vidyddtrja, or a View oj Learning, is written in fo clofe 

 and concife a ftyle, that fome parts of it ate very ob- 

 fcure, and the whole requires an explanation. From 

 the beginning of it we learn that the Veda's are consi- 

 dered by the Hindus as the fountain of all knowledge, 

 human and divine; whence the verfes of them are faicl 



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