[Footnote 262: The soul may be traced back through successive transmigrations, but you never get back to its beginning.] [Footnote 263: Mádhava means that the author of this stanza, though unknown to many people, was not necessarily unknown to all, as his contemporaries, no doubt, knew who wrote it, and his descendants might perhaps still be aware of the fact. In this case, therefore, we have an instance of a composition of which some persons did not know the origin, but which, nevertheless, had a human author. The stanza in question is quoted in full in Böhtlingk's Indische Sprüche, No. 5598, from the MS. anthology called the _Subháshitárṇava_. For _muktaka_, see _Sáh. Darp._, § 558.] [Footnote 264: The eternity of the Veda depends on this tenet of the Mímáṃsá that sound is eternal.] [Footnote 265: Eternal things (as the atoms of earth, fire, water, and air, minds, time, space, ether, and soul) have _viśesha_, not _sámánya_ or genus, and they are all imperceptible to the senses. Genera are themselves eternal (though the individuals in which they reside are not), but they have not themselves genus. Both these arguments belong rather to the Nyáya-vaiśeshika school than to the Nyáya.] [Footnote 266: The Mímáṃsaka allows that the _uchcháraṇa_ or utterance is non-eternal.] [Footnote 267: The inference will be as follows: "The Vedas were arranged after being acquired by other modes of proof, with a view to their manifestation, from the very fact of their having the nature of sentences, just like the compositions of Manu, &c."] [Footnote 268: The argument will now run, "The Vedas were arranged after being acquired by other modes of proof, because, while they possess authority, they still have the nature of sentences, like the composition of Manu, &c."] [Footnote 269: In assuming a material body, he would be subject to material limitations.] [Footnote 270: The Jainas allow thirty-four such superhuman developments (_atiśayáḥ_) in their saints.] [Footnote 271: Jaimini maintains that the vibrations of the air "manifest" the always existing sound.] [Footnote 272: "What is meant by 'noise' (_náda_) is these 'conjunctions' and 'disjunctions,' occasioned by the vibrations of the air."--_Ballantyne_, _Mímáṃsá Aphorisms_, i. 17.] [Footnote 273: The Nyáya holds that colour and sound are respectively special qualities of the elements light and ether; and as the organs of seeing and hearing are composed of light and ether, each will, of course, have its corresponding special quality.] [Footnote 274: In p. 131, line 7, I read _pratyakshásiddheḥ_.]