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that the inner Citta (mind) permeates external forms. It

makes them the object of perception and in the end

takes the shape of the object of perception itself.

 
5447. <headword>मूषिकविषाणन्यायः
 
</headword>
 
The maxim is put to use at the time of describing the

impossible things like the horns of the rat.
 

 
548 <headword>मूषिकसर्पपटिकान्यायः
 
Laukikanyāyakośa
 
</headword>
 
Many things were kept in a box. A serpent also made

its entry into it, thinking that it could get some food

articles to eat; A rat made a hole to that box and

entered it. Seeing the mouse, the snake tried to catch

hold of it but the mouse easily escaped through the

same hole made by it. Based on this event, the maxim

remarks that a being may escape from sorrow to joy

and vice a versa too.
 

 
549. <headword>मूलक्रिमिन्यायः
 
</headword>
 
The maxim says that all those things which are spoiled

or damaged at the beginning only, perish ulimately as

the tree ultimately dies (dries up) when its roots are
spoi
spoiled by the insects.
 

 
550. <headword>मृगतृष्णान्यायः
 
</headword>
 
Ex. रे चित्त चिन्तय चिरं चरणौ मुरारैः

पारं गमिष्यसि यत्तो भवसागरस्य ।

पुत्रः कलत्रमितरे सुहृदः सहायाः

सर्वं विलोकय सखे मृगतृष्णिकामम् ।
 

 
The maxim illustrates the phenomenon of delusion by

pointing how the deer try to run after imaginery waves

of water, to quench their thirst. Their delusion is
sometimes fatal to them
sometimes fatal to them--According to Vedānta, this

world is also a kind of delusion.

- -सा० 442