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Chapter 12.247 - Verse 7

Sanskrit Text

आकाशस्य गुणः शब्दो व्यापित्वं छिद्रतापि अनाश्रयमनालम्बमव्यक्तमविकारिता

English Translation

The properties of space are sound, extension, capacity of being enclosed, absence of refuge, power of being unmanifest, capacity for modification, incapacity for resistance, material cause for producing the sense of hearing, and the unoccupied parts of the human body. These are the fifty properties, as declared, which form the essences of the five elementary entities.

Padaccheda (Word Analysis)

आकाशस्य | गुणं | शब्दम् | अभिव्यञ्ज् + आत्मक | मनः
अनाश्रयम् | अनालम्बम् | अव्यक्तम् | अविकारिन् + ता