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Karika 32: The thirteen means and their effects

The words

Translation

There are thirteen types of means of knowledge, which perform the functions of engaging, sustaining and illuminating [their objects]. Their effects, namely the engaged, the sustained and the illuminated, are of ten types each.

The thirteen means

They engage, sustain and illuminate their objects (karika 32); the external bring the objects to the internal (karika 33).