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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
Question : But then abhinibodha turns out to be a general class whose several species are mati etc. How then are these words mutually synodus ?
Answer : Here the words in question are called mutually synonymous by ignoring the difference that obtains between a class and its species. 13.
The Nature of the Type of Cognition Mati :
The mati-jñāna originates through the instrumentality of the indriyas or sense-organs and anindriya or not-sense-organ. 14.
Question : Here the indriyas and anindriya these two are declared to be the cause of mati-jñāna. Now it is well-known that eye etc. are the sense-organs. But what is to be understood by the not-sense-organ ?
Answer : By the not-sense-organ is to be understood manas or internal organ.
Question : When eye etc. on the one hand and the manas on the other are equally an instrument of mati-jñāna, then why call the former sense-organs and the latter not-sense-organ ?
Answer : Eye etc. are an external instrument while the manas is an internal instrument. This distinction is the ground of the distinction obtaining between the designations indriya and anindriya. 14.
The Sub-Types of Mati-jñāna :
Avagraha, thā, avāya, and dhāraṇā--these four are the subtypes of mati-jñāna. 15
All mati-jñāna, whether born of a sense-organ or born of the not-sense-organ, Has four sub-types. Thus considering that each of the four sub-types avagraha etc. might be born either of one of the five sense-organs or of the manas it turns out that the total sub-types of mati-jñāna are twenty-four in all. The following is how they are to be named.
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