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

Page 376

"THE REVEALED WORD."
1101
TEXT (2351).
*THUS, LIKE LIGHT, THE VEDA BEING THE EYE' FOR ALL MEN, THE HOSTILITY THAT ARISES AGAINST IT AMONG SOME PEOPLE, IS LIKE THE HOSTILITY OF THE OWL (TO LIGHT), AND IS THE EFFECT
OF THEIR DEMERIT"-(2351)
COMMENTARY.
When the Sun, which is the common Eye of all, has dispelled all darkness by its mass of effulgent rays and shines all round-colour does not become visible to the owl which has its Eye inefficient in the performing of its func tions; in the same way, people like the Buddhists, whose Eyes of Intelligence have become disabled by Demerit, have their vision obstructed, even when the one common Eye of all people, in the shape of the Veda, is there.
The particle 'Kila' is meant to indicate displeasure.
[Here ends the case for the Reliability of the VEDA, the REVEALED WORD. --Next follow the arguments AGAINST the Reliability of the REVEALED WORD, Veda.)
The said 'hostility to the Veda is now expounded :
TEXT (2352).
ALL THIS IS THE PRODUCT OF THE FALSE PRIDE OF THE TWICE-BORN PEOPLE. THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THIS, EVEN BY THE
SLIGHTEST CHANCE.-(2352)
COMMENTARY.
even by the slightest chance; like the Crow and the
Ghunäksaravat' Palm-fruit':-(2352)
1. Ghundkara'-when insecta get into a piece of wood and make holes in it, some times, the holes that appear become, by chance, so arranged as to assume the shape of Letters; hence hunäksara', 'insoot-letters', stands for merechance'. So also Crow and the Palm fruit'stands for mere chance; exemplified by the case when the Palm fruit drops from the treo when the Crow sits upon it, it is more chance, as the coming of the Crow cannot be the real cause of the falling of the fruit.