Note 253 — Chapter XII · THE JAIMINI-DARŚANA.

These four "fruits of action" are obscure, and I do not remember to have seen them alluded to elsewhere. I was told in India that they were a thing's coming into being, growing, declining, and perishing. If so, they are the second, third, fifth, and sixth of the six vikáras mentioned in Śaṅkara's Vajrasúchi, 2, i.e., asti, jáyate, vardhate, vipariṇamate, apakshíyate, naśyati. I do not see how there could be any reference to the four kinds of apúrva, sc. phala, samudáya, utpatti, and aṅga, described in Nyáya M. V. ii. 1, 2.