Verse 20

²⁰Six, in this account too: the elements are five, and the sixth is the supreme Person. Joined with them, which had sprung from himself, he made this and entered it along with them. ²¹Four only, in this account too: fire, water and food are born of the self; from these this was born — the birth, surely, of the one that has parts. ²²In the count of seventeen there are the elements, the subtle objects and the senses, five and five and five, with the mind for one; and the self is remembered as the seventeenth. ²³So in the count of sixteen the self is spoken of as the mind itself. Elements and senses, five each, and the mind and the self: thirteen.

²⁴In the elevenfold count there is this self, and the great elements and the senses. And the natures are eight, and the Person makes the ninth. ²⁵So the sages have made many countings of the principles. All of them are proper, since reasoning stands behind them. What in the learned is unbecoming?