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But, an objection is raised, while the mantra 'in whom the five five- people, &c., is common to the Kanvas and the Madhyandinas, the complementary passage 'they who know the breath of breath, &c., in the text of the former makes no mention of food, and hence we have no reason to say that the 'five-people' in their text are the breath, eye, and so on. To this objection the next Sutra replies.
In the text of some, viz. the Kanvas, where food is not mentioned, the five-people are recognised to be the five senses, owing to the phrase 'of lights' which is met with in another complementary passage.
Sing forth, O Kanvas, to the sportive host of your Maruts, brilliant on their chariots, and unscathed, they who were born together, self-luminous, with the spotted deer, the spears, the daggers, the glittering ornaments. I hear their whips, almost close by, when they crack them in their hands; they gain splendor on their way.
Come fast on your quick steeds! there are worshippers for you among the Kanvas: may you well rejoice among them. Truly there is enough for your rejoicing. We always are their servants, that we may live even the whole of life. To every sacrifice you hasten together, you accept prayer after prayer, O quick Maruts!
The Madhyandinas read, 'He who dwells in the Self, whom the Self does not know, &c.; the Kanvas, 'He who dwells within understanding', &c. The declaration of the individual Self being ruled by the Ruler within implies of course the declaration of the former being different from the latter.
What remained of the Maurya throne was usurped in 184 B.C. by the Sungas who in their turn were overthrown by the Kaṇvas. These latter could not withstand the Andhras and collapsed before them about 27 B.C. Alexander's invasion produced little direct effect, and no allusion to it has been found in Indian literature.
The next Sutra supplies a new, independent argument. For both also speak of it as something different. Both, i.e. the Madhyandinas as well as the Kanvas, distinguish in their texts the embodied soul, together with speech and other non-intelligent things, from the Ruler within, representing it as an object of his rule.
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