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## Explanation of the Ten Sutras in the Context of Language:
[58] This Ten Sutras, in relation to language, is an explanation. The topic of language was discussed in the previous sutras. Therefore, these ten sutras also indirectly address certain specific aspects related to language. This Ten Sutras reveals that language is of two types: one is the language of the restrained, which is appropriate (used) in the right way, and the other is the language of the unrestrained, which is inappropriate (unused).
**The one who speaks with understanding of the context and by considering the meaning through scriptural knowledge is called appropriate.** He knows that "I am speaking this." But the one who, due to the dullness (underdevelopment) of the senses or due to the imbalance or distortion of the wind (vata) etc., loses consciousness and becomes distracted, manic, insane, or intoxicated, cannot connect the context. Therefore, he speaks by imagining things in his mind, and he is called inappropriate. In that state, he does not even know "What am I speaking? What am I eating? Who are my parents? Where is my master's house? And who is my master's son?" Therefore, it seems that the intention of the scholar is that whatever he speaks in such an inappropriate state (dull or distorted state of consciousness) is not true language.
The same applies to the camel etc. The explanation of "dull boy, dull girl" in language - Children etc. are also seen speaking, but which of the four types of language mentioned above is their language? This is the doubt that Sri Gautam Swami's questions address.
**Meaning of Dull Boy:** A simple-minded, newborn infant or an ignorant little child whose understanding (comprehension) is not yet mature, who speaks in a stammering way, who has very little knowledge of things. Similarly, a dull girl is also an ignorant child. The question is, when such an ignorant child receives language-worthy pudgalas and transforms them into language and emits them in the form of speech, does he know that "I am speaking this," or "I am eating this," or "These are my parents," or "This is my master's house," or "This is my master's son?" The Lord says, "Except for the one with knowledge, this is not possible."
Although that ignorant child is sufficiently equipped with language and mind, his mind is still undeveloped. Due to the dullness of the mind, his destruction and pacification are also slow. The destruction and pacification of the scriptural knowledge covering karma usually arises from the support of the sharpness of the mind, which is both scripturally accepted and a matter of common experience.
**Explanation of the one with knowledge:** Here, the word "one with knowledge" does not mean "one with a similar mind," but rather "one who has knowledge." Knowledge means perception knowledge, knowledge of remembering the category, or the specific sharpness of the mind. Those children or camels who, even in their infancy, possess such specific knowledge (one with knowledge), they know these things.
The determination of the knowledge-based nature of language with singular, plural, and feminine forms is found in 846.