A different mode of treating the subject is found in the Jñánaratnávalí, &c., in such lines as—
"The Lord, knowledge, ignorance, the soul, matter, and the cause
"Of the cessation thereof,—these are collectively the six categories."
But our readers must seek for full information from the work itself. Thus our account of the system is complete.
E. B. C.
FOOTNOTES:
[112] Colebrooke speaks of the Paśupati-sástra (Maheśvara-siddhánta or Sivágama), as the text-book of the Páśupata sect. The Ágamas are said to be twenty-eight (see their names in the Rev. T. Foulkes' "Catechism of the Śaiva Religion").
[113] "There must be three eternal entities, Deity, soul, matter;" "as the water is co-eternal with the sea and the salt with the water, so soul is co-eternal with the Deity, and páśa is eternally co-existent with soul" (J. A. O. S. iv. pp. 67, 85). In p. 58 we find the advaita of the Vedánta attacked. In p. 62 it is said that the soul is eternally entangled in matter, and God carries on his five operations (see infra) to disentangle it, bringing out all that is required for previous desert.
[114] These four feet are the four stages of religious life (see J. A. O. S. iv. pp. 135, 180), called in Tamil sarithei, kirikei, yokam, and gnánam. The first is the stage of practical piety and performance of the prescribed duties and rites; the second is that of the "confirmatory sacrament" and the five purifications involved in true pújá; the third is that of the eight observances of the yogin; the fourth is that of knowledge which prepares the soul for intimate union with God.
[115] Cf. Colebrooke, Essays (2d ed.), vol. i. p. 315.