Madhvaon Brahma Sūtra 2.4.16

The connection between the soul and the organs has been eternal without a beginning; so the Sruti rightly speaks of the organs as the organs of the soul. Accord- ingly the Gaupavana Sruti says, “Now those that do not become separated : the soul is indeed never separated from the organs, but is separated only from the body. This is the virtue of the organs, viz., that they are not separated (from the intelligent being).” The particle ‘ Cha ’ (and) shows that two phrases, ‘‘ of the organs/’ “ of their relation ” have to be supplied. “Now the organs of sense. Pranas indeed are the organs; for Pranas go to it (the object)/’ thus the Pautra- yana Sruti with a reason states in general that “ all the Pranas are organs ” ; bnt the Kashayana Sruti says, u Only twelve are the organs, the wise say ; Manas and Budhi (mind1 and thought) are the (eleventh and) twelfth.” (According to the former text there would be thirteen organs as the term Pranas may include the Chief also; and the latter Sruti states the number of organs to be only twelve, hence the question is which of them should be excluded from the universe of organs. To clear this doubt, the Sutrakara says: