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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER xxiv,
TEXT (2720). FROM ALL THIS IT FOLLOWS THAT IT IS THE WORD THAT IS APPREHENDED ON THE WAKE OF THE PREVIOUS SUCCESSIVE COGNITIONS OF ALL THE COMPONENT LETTERS, ---WHICH IS THE CAUSE OF THE COMPREHENSION OF THE MEANING
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COMMENTARY. Says the Opponent-" The Letters in a Word stand in a definite order, they are perceived also in a definite order; Remembrance is always in accord. ance with the previous perception ;-how then can there be the single cognition envisaging all the Letters, which can only be of the nature of remembrance, except through the Sphota ? Certainly when the thing has been cognised as without order, there can be no appearance of the Letters which are there in a definite order?"
In anticipation of this argument, the Author supplies the following answer :
TEXT (2721). WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT—WHEN THE FINAL LETTER IN THE WORD HAS BEEN COGNISED, THE IMPRESSIONS LEFT BY THE COGNITION OF ALL THE LETTERS BRINGS ABOUT THE REMEMBRANCE OF ALL THE LETTERS SIMULTANEOUSLY.-(2721)
COMMENTARY. What is meant by this is as follows:-First of all, there is apprehension (of the Letters),-thon the Remembrances immediately following from them come about in the same order as the Latters then from these Remembrances, there follows the cumulative cognition of all the Letters, this cogni. tion also is of the nature of Remembrance; because it only envisages things that have been previously perceived.-(2721)
In the following Teat the Author points out that what has been stated is admitted by all parties,--and it is not only his own assumption -
TEXT (2722). ALL PARTIES AGREE THAT THERE IS SUCH SUBJECTIVE (CUMULATIVE) COGNITION IN CONNECTION WITH ALL THINGS-EVEN WHEN THEY ARE COGNISED IN A CERTAIN ORDER OF
SEQUENCE.-(2722)
COMMENTARY. 'Etat'-stands for the cumulative cognition.-(2722)
The following Text points out that this view, being in due accord with reason, deserves to be accepted :