Shloka 28
Jvarotpatti — The Origin and Distribution of Jvara
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इन्द्रियाणि च भावाश्च गुणा: सप्तदश स्मृता: । तेषामष्टादशो देही यः शरीरे स शाश्वत:
indriyāṇi ca bhāvāś ca guṇāḥ saptadaśa smṛtāḥ | teṣām aṣṭādaśo dehī yaḥ śarīre sa śāśvataḥ ||
阿悉多说：“诸根与内在诸倾向，被记为十七种‘构成要素’（guṇa）。其上有第十八者——具身之我（dehī），居于身中，被认为常住不灭。此教旨指向道德责任：经验与行动之器具虽多，而统摄其上的持久能作者唯有一；当此能作者离去，身体及其运作的诸原理便不再作为一个活人而存。”
असित उवाच
Educational Q&A
Embodied life can be analyzed into multiple functional principles (senses and mental dispositions), but there is an enduring presiding self (dehī) that experiences and directs them. Ethical accountability and the possibility of liberation rest on recognizing the self as distinct from the changing instruments.
In the Śānti Parva’s instructional discourse, the sage Asita explains a philosophical enumeration of the constituents of embodied existence, culminating in the claim that the indwelling self is the eighteenth principle and is regarded as everlasting.