Brief definitions and enumerations of each category

AnTs_3

Among these, the substances are just nine: earth, water, fire, air, ether, time, direction, self, and mind.

AnTs_4

Colour, taste, smell, touch, number, magnitude, separateness, conjunction, disjunction, remoteness, proximity, heaviness, fluidity, viscidity, sound, cognition, pleasure, pain, desire, aversion, effort, merit, demerit, and disposition — these are the twenty-four qualities.

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Throwing upward, throwing downward, contraction, expansion, and going — these are the five motions.

AnTs_6

sāmānya (Universal) is two-fold: the higher (para) and the lower (apara).

AnTs_7

But the viśeṣa (ultimate particularities), which reside in the eternal substances, are indeed infinite.

AnTs_8

samavāya (Inherence), however, is just one.

AnTs_9

abhāva (Absence) is four-fold: prior absence (prāgabhāva), absence by destruction (pradhvaṃsābhāva), absolute absence (atyantābhāva), and mutual absence (anyonyābhāva).