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84 is endlessly diversified, accordingly as it is exemplified in envelopment, ignorance, disgust, abjectness, heaviness, sloth, drowsiness, intuxication, and the like ; summarily, it consists of delusion."

Thou, when a longing, &c.] "Having divided his own substance, the mighty power became half male, half female, or nature active and passive."—Manu, Ch. I.

So also in the old Orphic hymn it is said,

The sacred Hymns.] Contained in the Vedas, or Holy Scriptures of the Hindús.

The Word of Praise.] The mystic syllable, prefacing all the prayers and most of the writings of the Hindús. It implies the Indian triad, and expresses the Three in One.

''They hail thee. Nature.''] The object of Nature's activity, according to the Sánkhya system, is " the final liberation of individual soul." "The incompetency of nature, an irrational principle, to institute a course of action for a definite purpose, and the unfitness of rational soul to regulate the acts of an agent whose character it imperfectly apprehends, constitute a principal argument with the theistical Sankhyas for the necessity of a Providence, to whom the ends of existence are known, and by whom Nature is guided...... The atheistical Sánkhyas, on the other hand, contend that there is no occasion for a guiding Providence, but that the activity of nature, for the purpose of accomplishing soul's object, is an intuitive necessity, as illustrated in the following passage:—As it is a function of milk, an unintelligent (substance), to nourish the calf, so it is the office of the chief principle (nature), to liberate the soul." Prof. Wilson's Sánkha Káriká. Hail thee the Stranger Spirit, &c.] "Soul is witness, solitary, bystander, spectator, passive."—''Sánkh. Kár''. verse xix.

See, Varun's noose.] The God of Water.

Weak is Kuvera's hand.] The God of Wealth.

Yama's sceptre.] The God and Judge of the Dead.

The Lords of Light.] The Ádityas, twelve in number, are forms of the Sun, and appear to represent him as distinct in each month of the year.

The Rudras.] A class of demi-gods, eleven in number, said to be inferior manifestations of Siva, who also bears this name.