The arrow first acquires motion by
specially directed movement, and then on account of its inertia
(_vegasamskara_) keeps on moving and when that ceases it falls
down through heaviness.
The second chapter abounds with extremely crude explanations
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[Footnote 1: This portion has been taken from the _Upaskara_ of S'ankara
Mis'ra on the _Vais'e@sika sutras_ of Ka@nada. It must be noted here
that the notion of number according to Vais'e@sika is due to mental
relativity or oscillation (_apeksabuddhijanya_). But this mental
relativity can only start when the thing having number is either seen or
touched; and it is in this sense that notion of number is said to depend
on the visual or the tactual sense.]
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of certain physical phenomena which have no philosophical
importance. All the special phenomena of nature are explained
as being due to unknown cause (_ad@r@s@takaritam_) and no explanation
is given as to the nature of this unknown (_ad@r@s@ta_).
It is however said that with the absence of _ad@r@s@ta_ there is no contact
of body with soul, and thus there is no rebirth, and therefore
mok@sa (salvation); pleasure and pain are due to contact of the
self, manas, senses and objects.
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