the coarse or visible elements, intellectual.--In the
Sāṅkhya philosophy abhautikasarga is one of the creations or
evolutions of Prakṛti or Matter, comprising the evolutions
called liṅgasarga ‘evolution of mind’ and bhāvasarga ‘evolution
of mental affections’, the other evolution of Prakṛti being
bhautikasarga or bhūtasarga, produced by the coarse elements and
comprising eight classes of celestial beings (see brāhma, prā-
jāpatya, saumya, aindra, gāndharva, yākṣa, rākṣasa, paiśāca)--in
whom prevails the quality sattva--, five species of brute
creation (tame animals, wild animals, birds, reptiles and
immovable substances)--in whom prevails the quality
tamas--, and the species man, with the predominant quality
rajas; ‘both, the abhautika--and the bhautika--evolutions,
comprise therefore sixteen evolutions of Matter’. [This is, in
my opinion, the bearing of Gaudapāda's concluding remark
on the Sāṅkhya-Kār. v. 54: evamabhautikaḥ sargo liṅgasargo bhā-
vasargo--cfr. v. 52--bhūtasargo daivamānuṣatairyagyona--cfr. v. 53--
ityeṣa pradhānakṛtaḥ ṣoḍaśasargaḥ]. E. a neg. and bhautika.