[351] It is singular that this is Mádhava's principal Sáṅkhya authority, and not the Sáṅkhya Sútras.
[352] Vaikṛita is here a technical term meaning that goodness predominates over darkness and activity. On this Káriká, comp. Dr. Hall's preface to the Sáṅkhya-sára, pp. 30-35.
[353] As produced, like them, from modified egoism. The reading saṃkalpavikalpátmakam must be corrected by the Sáṅkhya Káriká.
[354] Cf. Colebrooke Essays, vol. i. p. 256. The tanmátras will reproduce themselves as the respective qualities of the gross elements.
[355] A name of the Buddhists.
[356] I.e., the nature of a thing (Svabháva) cannot be altered—a man cannot be made a cow, nor a woman a man.
[357] I take arthántaram here as simply bhinnam (cf. Táránátha Tarkaváchaspati's note, Tattva Kaumudí, p. 47).
[358] Colebrooke's translation.
[359] Or "passion," rajas.
[360] In other words—on the one hand the existing misery of beings induced God to create a world in order to relieve their misery, and on the other hand it was the existence of a created world which caused their misery at all.