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"THE REVEALED WORD."
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Even granting that the Reflected Image is something different, produced in the reflecting medium, the Mimāmsaka offers another explanation:
TEXT (2225)
"EVEN GRANTING THAT THE REFLECTED IMAGE REALLY EXISTS IN THE DIFFERENT PLACES,—THERE CAN BE NO PLURALITY OF THESE IMAGES, BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL APPREHENDED BY THE SAME COGNITION."-[Shlokavārtika-ETER
NALITY OF WORDS-190-191].—(2225)
COMMENTARY.
Even if the Reflected Image is something different, these images cannot be several ;-why ?-because they are apprehended by the same Cognitioni.e. they all fall within the same idea.
In the same way, the Word-Sound also becomes established as one, because it is apprehended by a single Idea.—(2225)
Says the Opponent-When the images are actually perceived in diverse places, why should they not be several ? That is to say, when the diversity of images is admitted on the ground of their being perceived in diverse places, how can this diversity be set aside by the single Cognition (by which they are all apprehended) ?
The Mimāmsaka's answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (2226).
"THE IDEA OF DIVERSITY DUE TO DIVERSITY OF PLACE IS inferential; WHILE THE IDEA THAT IT IS THE SAME' is perceptional,-AND HENCE ANNULS THE FORMER.”—[Shlokavārtika-ETER
NALITY OF WORDS, 197-198].—(2226)
COMMENTARY.
It annuls the former';-because Perception is superior in authority to all means and forms of Cognition.-(2226)
