The qualities — first set (colour through sound)

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Colour is the quality apprehensible by the eye alone. It is seven-fold, by the distinction of white, blue, yellow, red, green, brown, and variegated, and it resides in earth, water, and fire. Among these, in earth it is seven-fold; in water it is non-lustrous white; in fire it is lustrous white.

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Taste is the quality apprehensible by the organ of taste. It is six-fold, by the distinction of sweet, sour, salty, pungent, astringent, and bitter. In earth it is six-fold; in water it is just sweet.

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Smell is the quality apprehensible by the organ of smell. It is two-fold: fragrant and foul. It resides in earth alone.

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Touch is the quality apprehensible by the organ of touch alone. It is three-fold, by the distinction of cool, hot, and neither-hot-nor-cool. It resides in earth, water, fire, and air. Among these, the cool is in water; the hot is in fire; the neither-hot-nor-cool is in earth and air.

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The set of four — colour and the rest — in earth is produced by baking (heat) and is non-eternal; elsewhere it is not produced by baking, and is eternal [or non-eternal: antyaṃ — read anityaṃ; sic in source]. That which resides in the eternal is eternal; that which resides in the non-eternal is non-eternal.

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Number is the cause of usage such as 'one' and the like. It resides in [all] nine substances and extends from oneness up to a parārdha (a hundred thousand billion). Oneness is both eternal and non-eternal: that residing in the eternal is eternal, that residing in the non-eternal is non-eternal. But duality and the rest are everywhere non-eternal.

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Magnitude is the cause of usage concerning measurement. It resides in [all] nine substances. It is four-fold: minute, large, long, and short.

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Separateness [pṛthagtvaṃ — read pṛthaktvaṃ; sic in source] is the cause of usage concerning 'distinctness.' It resides in all substances.

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Conjunction is the cause of the usage 'conjoined.' It resides in all substances.

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Disjunction is the quality that destroys conjunction. It resides in all substances.

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Remoteness and proximity are the distinctive causes of usage concerning 'far' and 'near.' They reside in the set of four beginning with earth, and in mind. They are each two-fold: spatial and temporal. In what is distant, remoteness is spatial; in what is near, proximity is spatial. In the elder, remoteness is temporal; in the younger, proximity is temporal.

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Heaviness is the non-inherent cause of the initial falling. It resides in earth and water.

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Fluidity is the non-inherent cause of the initial flowing. It resides in earth, water, and fire. It is two-fold: natural and conditioned. The natural is in water; the conditioned is in earth and fire. In earth, fluidity is produced by conjunction with fire, as in clarified butter and the like; in fire, [it is conditioned] as in gold and the like.

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Viscidity is the quality that is the cause of the agglomeration of powder and the like into a lump. It resides in water alone.

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śabda (Sound) is the quality apprehensible by the ear. It resides in ether alone. It is two-fold: of the nature of noise and of the nature of articulate syllable. The noise-form is in the drum and the like; the syllable-form is of the nature of Sanskrit and other languages.