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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXIV.
Question: "What then does it do?"
Answer : - It needs, etc. etc.'-The compound is to be explained as that which is similar to the stick held by the blind man:-(2374)
Question : -" It may be in need of it; where is the harm ?" Anstoer :
TEXT (2375).
WHEN PULLED UP BY THE EXPLANATIONS, THE VEDA MIGHT FALL INTO THE WRONG PATK; AND IN THAT CASE, IT WOULD NOT BE RIGHT TO REGARD THE VEDA AS THE 'Ere' (ILLUMINATING THINGS)
LIKE THE LIGHT.-(2375)
COMENTARY.
Sa'-stands for the Veda. *Taya'-stands for the Explanations by men.
* Might fall into the wrong path-by providing a wrong knowledge of things, expressing things as they are not
Thus, it cannot be right to say, as has been said by the Mimānsaka) - The Veda, like Light, is the one eye for all men, and there should be no objections raised against it'. (Text 2351).-(2375)
The following Text sums up the discussion:
TEXT (2376).
EVEN THOUGH BY ITSELF, THE VEDA MAY BE ABLE TO BRING ABOUT COGNITIONS --YET ITS VALIDITY (RELIABILITY) CANNOT BE QUITE CLEAR; AS IT IS DEPENDENT UPON
PERSONALITIES.—(2376)
COMMENTARY.
It has been already explained that what is efficient cannot bring about cognitions through the help of Personalities.-Even granting that the Veda is efficient and yet it is productive of Cognitions through the help of Personalities.-even so, though it may be able to bring about cognitions through the help of Personalities, yet its validity and reliability would not be clearly possible.- Such is the construction of the sentence.
The particle 'api' is misplaced; it should be construed after sati', (2376)
The following Text further clarifies this same idea :
| SR No. | 007609 |
| Book Title | Tattva Sangraha Vol 2 |
| 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 |