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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"THE REVEALED WORD.”
1183
The objection that there should be hearing of far-off sound also' is applicable, not only to the view that the Word-Sound is endowed, by its very nature, with the capacity to produce its cognition, but it is also applicable to the view that there is Embellishment of the Word-Sound). Hence this has been set forth as another alternative view-'Why it is not heard by persons at a distance ?' is heard' is to be construed here. What is meant is that it should certainly be heard. (2566-2867)
The same idea is further clarified :
TEXT (2568).
EVEN IN CASES OF PROXIMITY, THE EMBELLISHMENT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE CAUSE OF THE COGNITION); AND THIS EMBELLISHMENT WOULD BE EQUALLY THERE FOR PERSONS AT A DISTANCE
ALSO.—(2568)
COMMENTARY.
It has been argued by the Mimamsaka, in Text 2270, that-"Inasmuch as the idea of the Word-Sonnd being produced has been rejected, etc. etc."
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXTS (2569-2570). IF THE IDEA IS THAT PARTICULAR EMBELLISHMENTS ARE PRODUCED BY ARTICULATIONS, THEN IN THAT CASE, NO ONE CAN DENY THE IDEA OF THE SOUND BEING produced. BECAUSE THE PARTICULAR EMBELLISHMENT IS NOT SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM THE WORD-SOUND; OTHERWISE THE WORD-SOUND WOULD BE INCOGNISABLE. CONSEQUENTLY THE WORDSOUND ALSO SHOULD BE REGARDED AS
produced.—(2569-2570)
COMMENTARY.
If the Embellishment is something that is produced, then there should be production of the Word-Sound also; because it is not different from the Embellishment.-In case it is different, then, as the Cognition would be brought about by the Embellishment itself, the Word Sound would not be an active agent in it; and hence it would not be apprehended by that Cognition. For these reasons it should be admitted that the Word-Sound also is produced. -(2569-2570)
The following might be urged-"Just as for you, the Buddhist, the Word-Sound is produced as capable of bringing about a particular restricted