siddhantabindu /117
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सिद्धान्तबिन्दु
79
नाभस इति केचित् । शब्दव्यञ्जकेन्द्रियत्वेन श्रोत्रवद्वाचो नाभसत्वम् ।
पादचिकित्सया च चक्षुषः स्वास्थ्यदर्शनाच्चक्षुर्वत्पादस्यापि तेजसत्वमिति तुं
युक्तमुत्पश्यामः। तेजोमयत्वश्रुतिस्तु मनसः पञ्चभूत कार्यस्यापि अत्रमयत्व-
श्रुतिरिव तदुपकार्यतया व्याख्येया । मनमश्च पञ्चभूतगुणग्राहकत्वेन तद्वत्त्व-
निश्चयात्पञ्चभूतात्मकत्वमित्यन्यदेतत् ॥
144. In the same way, each of the five elements pro-
duces two faculties distinguished by the powers of
knowing and activity. Space produces hearing and
speech; wind produces the tactile faculty and hold-
ing; light produces vision and locomotion, water
produces taste and elimination; and earth produces
smell and procreation. Among these again some
hold that, because the scripture says, "Speech is a
product of light", speech is a product of light
and locomotion of space.
We consider it proper
to classify speech as spatial because it mani-
fests sound (the quality of space ), like hearing, and
locomotion as luminous because that function needs
the help of light, like vision. Also because the eyes
are seen to improve by the treatment of feet. The
scriptural text regarding the luminosity (of speech)
should be understood, like the text which speaks of
the mind as consisting of food, to mean that, though
it consists of all the five elements, it is aided by light.
Because the mind is able to perceive the qualities of
all the elements, it is known to have all these quali-
ties and so consists of all the five great elements and
is a separate faculty.
१४५० एतेषामधिष्ठातारो देवा अपि ज्ञानक्रियाशक्तिप्रधानाः – दिगग्नी ।
वातेन्द्रौ। आदित्यचिष्णू । वरुणमित्रौ । अश्विप्रजापती ।
तत्र ज्ञानशक्ति
समष्टिरन्तःकरणम् । क्रियाशक्तिसमष्टिः प्राणः ।
145. The deities presiding on these faculties also have
79
नाभस इति केचित् । शब्दव्यञ्जकेन्द्रियत्वेन श्रोत्रवद्वाचो नाभसत्वम् ।
पादचिकित्सया च चक्षुषः स्वास्थ्यदर्शनाच्चक्षुर्वत्पादस्यापि तेजसत्वमिति तुं
युक्तमुत्पश्यामः। तेजोमयत्वश्रुतिस्तु मनसः पञ्चभूत कार्यस्यापि अत्रमयत्व-
श्रुतिरिव तदुपकार्यतया व्याख्येया । मनमश्च पञ्चभूतगुणग्राहकत्वेन तद्वत्त्व-
निश्चयात्पञ्चभूतात्मकत्वमित्यन्यदेतत् ॥
144. In the same way, each of the five elements pro-
duces two faculties distinguished by the powers of
knowing and activity. Space produces hearing and
speech; wind produces the tactile faculty and hold-
ing; light produces vision and locomotion, water
produces taste and elimination; and earth produces
smell and procreation. Among these again some
hold that, because the scripture says, "Speech is a
product of light", speech is a product of light
and locomotion of space.
We consider it proper
to classify speech as spatial because it mani-
fests sound (the quality of space ), like hearing, and
locomotion as luminous because that function needs
the help of light, like vision. Also because the eyes
are seen to improve by the treatment of feet. The
scriptural text regarding the luminosity (of speech)
should be understood, like the text which speaks of
the mind as consisting of food, to mean that, though
it consists of all the five elements, it is aided by light.
Because the mind is able to perceive the qualities of
all the elements, it is known to have all these quali-
ties and so consists of all the five great elements and
is a separate faculty.
१४५० एतेषामधिष्ठातारो देवा अपि ज्ञानक्रियाशक्तिप्रधानाः – दिगग्नी ।
वातेन्द्रौ। आदित्यचिष्णू । वरुणमित्रौ । अश्विप्रजापती ।
तत्र ज्ञानशक्ति
समष्टिरन्तःकरणम् । क्रियाशक्तिसमष्टिः प्राणः ।
145. The deities presiding on these faculties also have