Tattva Sangraha Vol 2

SR No.: 007609
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamlashila, Ganganatha Jha
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1939
Total Pages: 887
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 84 MB

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"THE REVEALED WORD.”
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It might be argued that-as the substratum of the Sound varies, there could be embellishment of it, even though it is without parts, through that diversity of substratum.
The answer to the above is as follows:
TEXT (2158)
NOR CAN THERE BE DETERMINATION OF THE EMBELLISHMENT THROUGH THE DIVERSITY OF SUBSTRATUM; BECAUSE SOUND HAS NO
SUBSTRATUM AT ALL, LIKE Akasha and Soul.-—(2158)
COMMENTARY.
Because Sound is all-pervading, like Alūsha and Soul-it is without substratum.-(2158)
Says the other party-As a matter of fact Sound is a quality of Akusha, and qualities always subsist in the Substance to which they belong ; so that Akisha would be the substratum (or recoptacle) of Sound.
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (2159).
F Akasha IS THE SUBSTRATUM, EVEN SO, Akasha ITSELF BEING WITHOUT PARTS, THERE COULD BE NO EMBELLISHMENT in part, BECAUSE THE WORD-SOUND IS ALWAYS COGNISED AS
A WHOLE.—(2159)
COMMENTARY.
The snid Akūsha being without parts, the diversity in the embellishment could not be due to the diversity of the parts of the substratum.
The Opponent argues thus-Though Ākūsha is without parts, yet there is diversity among substances coming into contact with Akasha; e.g. we have the Akasha in the Jar' and so forth; so that the Akasha within the tympanum of one man would be different from that within another man's.
The answer to that is-'Because the Word-Sound, etc. etc. '--this is to be construed with the sentence there could be no embellishment in part'; the sense being that Sound itself is always apprehended as being without parts and such an apprehension would not be possible if the embellishmont belonged to only one part of the Akasha.-(2159)
The following text sums up the argument and shows how it is as stated :