[6]. See Bhikshu’s Yoga-vārttika, II. 18.
[7]. History of Hindu Chemistry, Vol. II, by P. C. Ray, p. 66.
[8]. The usual Sāṃkhya terms as found in Iśvarakṛshṇa’s Kārikā, having the same denotation as aviśesha and viśesha, are prakṛtivikṛti and vikṛti.
[9]. Vyāsa-bhāshya, II. 19.
[10]. Vyāsa-bhāshya, II. 19.
[11]. Tattvavaiśāradī, II. 19.
[12]. Tattvatraya, p. 48 (Chowkhamba edition), Benares.
[13]. Bhikshu in his Yoga-vārttika explains “māyeva” as “laukikamāyeva kshaṇabhaṇguram” evanescent like the illusions of worldly experience.
[14]. Siddhāntalleśa (Jīveśvara nirūpaiṇa).
[15]. Princess Kuntī of the Mahābhārata had a son born to her by means of a charm when she was still a virgin. Being afraid of a public scandal she floated the child in a stream; the child was picked up by the wife of a carpenter (Rādhā). The boy grew up to be the great hero Karṇa and he thought that he was the son of a carpenter until the fact of his royal lineage was disclosed to him later in life.