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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXIV.
TEXT (2575).
IF IT BE SAID THAT—"THE ORGAN AND THE LETTER-SOUND ARE EM BELLISHED AGAIN, AND ARE FIT FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE COGNITION OF THAT SOUND BY OTHER PERSONS",-THEN ALSO THERE WOULD BE CONTINUATION OF THE SAME ORGAN AND SOUND, AND HENCE OF THE hearing ALSO OF THE SAME SOUND
AND BY THE SAME PERSON.-(2575)
COMMENTARY.
The compound 'tadvarna, etc.' is to be expounded as-fit for the vijñāna-cognition of those Sounds by those persons;" which LetterSounds ?"-those that are heard by the other hearers ;--and the persons' are the 'hearers of those sounds'.
* Tayorava'.e. the Organ and Letter-Sound embellished previously.
Tayorapi of the previous Person and Letter-Sound.
What is meant is that, when the Letters-ka and the rest-are heard later on by other persons, they should be heard exactly as they had been heard by the previous persons ;-because their previous character would still continne.-(2675)
The following Text shows that if there is no such continuation as has been pointed out, then they become non-eternal :
TEXT (2576).
IF THESE OTHER ORGAN AND LETTER-SOUND ARE DISTINOT (FROM THOSE EMBELLISHED BEFORE),-THEN WHY DOES NOT THE HOPE OF THESE BEING ETERNAL BECOME ENTIRELY
BASELESS ?-(2576)
COMMENTARY.
This is easily understood.- (2576)
It has been argued by the Mimämsaka, in Text 2210, that "Though the Sun is one, yet it is seen, etc. etc."
The answer to this is as follows:
