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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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XXIV.
Otherwise than what it is '; i.e. in the state of the utter annihilation of all things was there is no evidence for this.
Question How then do people speak of the Dissolution'?
Answer:- As for Universal Dissolution, etc. etc.'; cannot be known' by people in reality what is meant is that an animed destruction of all things may not be denied.
These assumptions are exemplified Dissolution may be the name for Night only':
Question: Why is not the real 'Dissolution admitted ? Answer: There is no evidence, etc. etc. (2274-2277)
Granting that there is real 'Dissolution' :-even so, as at that time, there would be no creative Person, in the shape of God, who has not entirely lost his memory, intuition and other faculties,-no setting up of the Connection would be possible.
This is shown in the following:
TEXT (2278)
"As A MATTER OF FACT THERE CAN BE NO ETERNAL CREATOR AND DESTROYER, IN THE SHAPE OF GOD OR ANY SUCH BEING, WHO, NOT HAVING LOST HIS MEMORY, COULD SET UP THE
CONNECTION."-(2278)
COMMENTARY.
"There can be, etc. eto.' Because the possibility of any such Being has been repudiated in detail-(2278)
In the following texta, the Mimāmsaka anticipates the objections of the Opponent
TEXT (2279).
" [SAYS THE OPPONENT]—[EVEN THOUGH THE Letters MAY BE ETERNAL] THE ARRANGEMENT (ORDER) OF THE LETTERS CANNOT BE ETERNAL - CONSEQUENTLY WHAT IS expressive CANNOT BE ETERNAL. BECAUSE WHAT IS REGARDED AS expressive is The Word; AND THE IDEA OF THE WORD IS DEPENDENT UPON THE SAID ORDER (OF LETTERS)'."-[Shlokaviartika
ETERNALITY OF WORDS, 278].-(2279)
COMMENTARY
The Word is held by the Mimämsaka) to consist of the definite arrangement of the Letters - not of any such single entity as the Sphoța' (which,