Footnote 348:[(return)]
This in answer to the remark that possibly the conjunction of soul and pradhâna may come to an end when the influence of Darkness declines, it being overpowered by the knowledge of Truth.
Footnote 349:[(return)]
I.e. according as they are atoms of earth, water, fire, or air.
Footnote 350:[(return)]
Parimandala, spherical is the technical term for the specific form of extension of the atoms, and, secondarily, for the atoms themselves. The latter must apparently be imagined as infinitely small spheres. Cp. Vis. Sût. VII, 1, 20.
Footnote 351:[(return)]
Viz. during the period of each pralaya. At that time all the atoms are isolated and motionless.
Footnote 352:[(return)]
When the time for a new creation has come.
Footnote 353:[(return)]
The &c. implies the activity of the Lord.
Footnote 354:[(return)]
The inherent (material) cause of an atomic compound are the constituent atoms, the non-inheient cause the conjunction of those atoms, the operative causes the adrishta and the Lord's activity which make them enter into conjunction.
Footnote 355:[(return)]
I.e. in all cases the special form of extension of the effect depends not on the special extension of the cause, but on the number of atoms composing the cause (and thereby the effect).
Footnote 356:[(return)]
In order to escape the conclusion that the non-acceptance of the doctrine of Brahman involves the abandonment of a fundamental Vaiseshika principle.
Footnote 357:[(return)]
I.e. forms of extension different from sphericity, &c.