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The Essence of the Tantra8.76

8.76

न च कर्तव्यसाङ्कर्यमुक्ताद् एव हेतोः क्रिया करणकार्या मुख्यं च गमनादीनां क्रियात्वं न रूपाद्युपलम्भस्य तस्य काणादतन्त्रे गुणत्वात् तस्मात् अवश्याभ्युपेयः कर्मेन्द्रियवर्गः

Transliteration (IAST)

na ca kartavyasāṅkaryamuktād eva hetoḥ kriyā karaṇakāryā mukhyaṃ ca gamanādīnāṃ kriyātvaṃ na rūpādyupalambhasya tasya kāṇādatantre guṇatvāt tasmāt avaśyābhyupeyaḥ karmendriyavargaḥ

— from the (reasoning) already stated about the non-confusion of things-to-be-done ; — produced by an instrument ; — of going and the like ; — the status of being action proper ; — of the perception of color and the like ; — in the system of Kaṇāda (Vaiśeṣika) ; — the group of action-faculties

Nor (is this objectionable), for by the very reasoning already given about the non-confusion of things-to-be-done, action is produced by an instrument. And it is going and the like that are action in the principal sense, not the perception of color and the like — since in the Vaiśeṣika system that (perception) counts as a quality. Therefore the group of action-faculties must necessarily be admitted.