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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Letters - in the form of Sphota --There are these three possible views.(2761)
The following Text points out the objections against the first view (that the Sentence consists of the Letters only):
TEXT (2762).
LETTERS, DEVOID OF ORDER OF SEQUENCE, CANNOT BE EXPRESSIVE ; KENCE SUCH LETTERS CANNOT CONSTITUTE THE
SENTENCE'-(2762)
COMMENTARY.
The objections against the second view (that the Sentence consists in the Letters arranged in a certain order) are stated in the following Texts
TEXTS (2762-2766).
NOR CAN THE LETTERS HAVE AN ORDER OF SEQUENCE. AS THEY ARE
ALL-PERVADING AND ETERNAL, THERE CANNOT BE ANY SEQUENCE IN THEM OF EITHER TIME OR PLACE,-LIKE WHAT THERE IS IN THE LETTERS REDUCED TO WRITING, OR IN THE CASE OF FRUITS AND FLOWERS. IF THE ORDER OF SEQUENCE WERE INHERENT IN THE LETTERS THEMSELVES, THEN THEY WOULD ALWAYS BE IN THE FORM"8a-ra', NEVER IN THE FORM ra-sa'; AS THE LATTER WOULD BE INOOMPATIBLE WITH THE FORMER ORDER, WHICH IS ETERNAL. THE LETTER 'RA' THAT MIGHT BE ELSEWHERE CANNOT BE SAID TO APPEAR IN ANY OTHER ORDER OF SEQUENCE, FROM OUT OF AIR. BECAUSE EVERY ONE OF THE LETTERS HAS BEEN DECLARED TO BE one AND eternal. IF IT WERE NOT SO, THEN RECOGNITIONPUT FORWARD BY YOU AS A REASON FOR ETERNALITY' AND 'ONENESS WOULD BE INCONCLUSIVE, AS IT WOULD BE PRESENT EVEN WHEN THE LETTERS ARE DIVERSE.—(2762-2766)
COMMENTARY.
Nor can the Letters, etc. etc. Because the order of sequence among things can be of only two kinds-spacial and chronological there is order of sequence in space, as in the Letters reduced to writing; and there is order of sequence in Time as in the case of the series consisting of the seed-sprouttrunk-flower-fruit. The first kind of sequence (that is of space) is not possible in the case of Letters,-because they are all-pervading;the Letters pervading over all things; consequently,--as in Aküsha, so in Letters also