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buted to Swabhdva ; and the union of the soul or life (A'tma) with body, 

 is also Swabhdva. {Buddha Charitra Kdvya.) 



12. From Sioabhdva (nature) all things proceeded ; by Swabhdva 

 all things are preserved. All their differences of structure and of habits 

 are from Swabhdva : and from Swabhdva comes their destruction. All 

 things are regulated (suddhaj by Swabhdva. Swabhdva is known as 

 the Supreme. (Pujd hand, — from the Rucha Bhdgavati, where the sub- 

 stance is found in sundry passages). 



13. Akdsh is Swdbhdvika, because it is established, governed, per- 

 fected (suddhaj by its own force or nature. All things are absorbed in 

 it : it is uncreated or eternal ; it is revealed by its own force ; it is 

 the essence (A'tma*J of creation, preservation, and destruction ; it is the 

 essence of the five elements ; it is infinite ; it is intellectual essence 

 (Bodhandtmika) . The five colours are proper to it; and the five 

 Buddhas ; and the letters. It is Sunt/dta ; self-supported ; omnipre- 

 sent : to its essence belong both Pravritti and Nirvritti. This Akdsh, 

 which is omnipresent, and essentially intellectual!, because infinite things 

 are absorbed into it, is declared to be infinite. From the infinite nature 

 of this Akdsh were produced all moving things, each in its own time, 

 in due procession from another, and with its proper difference of form 

 and habits. From the secret nature of Akdsh proceeded likewise, 

 together with the Vij Mantra of each one, air with its own mobility ; 

 and from air, fire with its own heat ; and from fire, water with its 

 intrinsical coldness ; and from water, earth with its own proper solidity 

 or heaviness ; and from earth, Mount Sumeru with its own substance 

 of gold, or with its own sustaining power (DhdtwdtmikaJ ; and from 

 Sumeru, all the various kinds of trees and vegetables ; and from* them, 

 all the variety of colours, shapes, flavours, and fragrances, in leaves, 

 flowers, and fruits. Each derived its essential property (as of fire to 

 burn) from itself; and the order of its procession into existence from 

 the one precedent, by virtue of Swabhdva, operating in time. The 

 several manners of going peculiar to the six classes of animate beings 

 (four-legged, two-legged, &c), and their several modes of birth, (ovi- 



* One comment on the comment says, A'tma here means sthdn or dlaya, i. e. 

 the ubi of creation, &c. 



t Akdsh is here understood as synonymous with Suny&ta, that is, as the 

 elemental state of all things, the universal ubi and modus of primal entity, in a 

 state of abstraction from all specific forms : and it is worthy of note, that amidst 

 these primal principles, intelligence has admission. It is therefore affirmed to 

 be a necessary end, or eternal portion of the system of nature, though separated 

 from self-consciousness or personality. In the same manner, Prdjna, the sum 

 of all things, Diva natura, is declared to be eternal, and essentially intelligent, 

 though a material principle. 



