true knowledge, and ten,
the haters thereof, and ten again are those capable of learning it."[35]
Vandin said, "Eleven are the objects enjoyable by beings; eleven is the
number of the _yupas_; eleven are the changes of the natural state
pertaining to those having life; and eleven are the Rudras among the
gods in heaven."[36] Ashtavakra said, "Twelve months compose the year;
twelve letters go to the composition of a foot of the metre called
_Jagati_; twelve are the minor sacrifices; and twelve, according to the
learned, is the number of the Adityas."[37] Vandin said, "The
thirteenth lunar day is considered the most auspicious; thirteen islands
exist on earth."'[38]

[26] Ashtavakra comes to Janaka's sacrifice with the object of
proving the unity of the Supreme Being. Vandin avails himself of
various system of Philosophy to combat his opponent. He begins
with the Buddhistic system. The form of the dialogue is unique
in literature being that of enigmas and the latent meaning is in
a queer way hid under the appearance of puerile and
heterogeneous combinations of things.

Vandin opens the controversy by saying that as the number of
each of these is one, so one only intellect is the lord, leader
and guide of the senses.

[27] There is a Vedic revelation that two birds live together on
a tree as friends--one of these eats the fruits and the other
looks at the former. From this it is manifest that _two_ are the
lords, leaders, and guides of the senses. That there is a second
faculty besides the intellect is also proved by the fact that in
sleep when the intellect is inactive that faculty continues in
action, for if it were not so we could not remember having
slept, nor connect the state after awaking with that preceding
sleep. Accordingly by citing the number _two_ Ashtavakra assets
that besides intellect there is another faculty--consciousness
that these _two_ are jointly the lords, leaders and guides of
the senses and that they act together as Indra and Agni, etc.

[28] By citing the number _three_ Vandin means to say that as it
is Acts that produce the _three_ kinds of born beings, etc., so
Acts are supreme and that everything else be it intellect alone,
or intellect and consciousness together is subservient to Acts.

[29] Ashtavakra here advances the thesis that even if Acts be
supreme still when the (_four