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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XXIV.
The answer to this is-'When the eye is opened, etc. etc.'-' It does not fail to apprehend'-i.e. it does apprehend; that is, on account of the perceptibility of the place being equal.
Question - Why has the word 'all' been introduced ?
Answer: As the embellishment appertains, etc. etc.'--All Sounds, being all-pervading in character, occupy the same space in Akūsha; honce their embellishment also should be withont distinction.
In some places, the reading is samskāro hyavishëgatah'. In that case the particle 'M' stands for because avishdantah' stands for avishē. sēna'; hence the meaning comes to be-Because the embellishment hns been produced in Sounds withont distinction, on account of their occupying the same spnce, therefore it should be possible for all Sounds to be apprehended (at the same timo).-(2164-2165)
The following might be urged-Thongh the embellishment appertains to all Sounds equally, yet that Word-Sound alone is actually apprehended which the horror desires to apprehend,- none other.
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (2166).
THE EMBELLISHMENT, WHEN IT COMES, WOULD COME ABOUT BY THE REMOVAL OF THE IMMOBILE AIR-ENVELOPE ; AND IT HAS BEEN FOUND THAT WHEN THE COVERING ENVELOPE IS REMOVED, THE APPREHENSION OF WHAT HAS BEEN THERE FOLLOWS
(AS A MATTER OF COURSE).-(2166)
COMMENTARY.
There are two kinds of Air--mobile and immobile; it is the immobilo Air which envelopes Sound, like dense Darkness it is in this Air-envelope that Conjunctions and Disjunctions are prodnced by the Air proceeding from the Speaker's mouth;—these Conjunctions and Disjunctions bring about the removal of the said Air-envelope ; removal of the Air-covering is what is meant by the embellishment of Sound, -which cannot mean the strengthening of its characteristic features : because Sound is eternal and always of one and the same form.
What if it is so ?