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."
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Universals must also be non-eternal. If it were not so, then, while one of the two relatives would be there in a perfect condition, it cannot be right for the other to be imperfect ; as in that case, the Relationship itself would cease.-(2691-2692)
Another objection, urged before, is reiterated
TEXT (2693).
THE FACT THAT THERE CAN BE NO CONNECTION WITH manifestation HAVING BEEN ALREADY ESTABLISHED, THE LETTERS THUS
COULD NEVER BE EXPRESSIVE.--(2693)
COMMENTARY. (Corrupt.)
It has been asserted by the Mimūmsaka under Te.ct 2300, that,"Time is one, all-pervading, eternal, etc. etc."
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXTS (2694-2698).
TIME, AS SOMETHING ONE, ALL-PERVADING AND ETERNAL, HAS ALREADY
BEEN REJECTED ; NOR IS IT MANIFESTED IN ALL THINGS, LIKE THE LETTERS, BY ANYTHING; AND IF IT IS MANIFESTED IN THE LETTERS, IT CANNOT FORM A FACTOR IN THE EXPRESSION OF THE MEANING OF WORDS ;-AS IT IS NOT DIFFERENT FROM OTHER THINGS,—AND AS IT DOES NOT EXIST ELSEWHERE, IT CANNOT BE ETERNAL.—THUS THEN, THE ORDER OF THE LETTERS,-AS ALSO THEIR SHORTNESS, LENGTH, ETC.--ARE ALL ADJUNCTS OF THE ARTICULATION, AND ARE NOT SO MANY PHASES OF TIME.—THUS FOR YOU, THERE IS NO PROPERTY IN WORDS WHICH IS ETERNAL; HENCE IT BECOMES ESTABLISHED THAT THE WORD IS NOT-ETERNAL, FOR THOSE WHO REGARD THE LETTER AS NON-ETERNAL.-NOR COULD IT TORM PART OF THE PROPERTY OF ANYTHING ELSE,-LIKE THE FLEETNESS OF THE HORSE, IF IT WERE ASSUMED THAT THE MANIFESTING COGNITIONS BRING ABOUT THE MANIFESTATION OF THE WORDS.(26942698)
COMMENTARY.
Already'-under the chapter on the Six Categories.
It is not manifested by anything'-simply because it does not exist ;even if it existed, the manifestation of the eternal thing would also be eternal.