Note 8 — Chapter I · AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRIMEVAL CREATION

According to Sankhya Mahat is the intellect. It is the intellectual principle which appertains to individual beings. Ahankara is self consciousness or the consciousness of ego. The five subtle elements are Akasa or ether, air, fire, water and earth. By them are produced the four kinds of grosser elements such as Viviparous born from the womb as man and other animals; oviparous, or born of the egg as birds, fishes and serpents; those engendered by heat and damp as insects and worms; and those springing from the earth—as vegetables, trees &c.