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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. मूषिकविषाणन्यायः
 
The maxim is put to use at the time of describing the
impossible things like the horns of the rat.
 
548 मूषिकसर्पपटिकान्यायः
 
Laukikanyāyakośa
 
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. मूलक्रिमिन्यायः
 
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
spoied by the insects.
 
550. मृगतृष्णान्यायः
 
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-According to Vedānta, this
world is also a kind of delusion.
- सा० 442