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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER xxv.
TEXT (2849).
"THUS COGNITIONS HAVE NEED OF THEIR CAUSES ONLY IN REGARD TO THE BRINGING ABOUT OF THEIR OWN BIRTH, AND NOT IN REGARD TO THE BRINGING ABOUT OF THE CERTAINTY REGARDING
THEIR OWN QUALITIES".-(2849)
COMMENTARY.
Regarding their own qualities ', -the Locative Ending is in reference to the substratum of the certainty
What is meant is as follows :—There are certain qualities belonging to the Cognitions themselves, such qualities, for instance, as being of the nature of right apprehension, being produced by perfect causes, and so forth; in the bringing about of certainty regarding these qualities, they do not need any other causes.—(2849)
Question-If that is so, then what sort of cause are the Cognitions in regard to the bringing about of the said qualities?
Answer:
TEXT (2850).
“IN THE BRINGING ABOUT OF THEIR OWN VALIDITY AND THE DEFINITE COGNITION OF THE OBJECT, THE COGNITIONS ARE SELF-SUFFICIENT, AND NOT DEPENDENT ON OTHER CAUSES ;-AND IN THIS THEIR ACTION IS LIKE THAT OF THE
JAR AND OTHER THINGS."-(2850)
COMMENTARY.
The compound 'prāmányártha, etc.' is to be expounded as the prämänya' -validity-and the artha'-Object :--the 'vinishchiti',-Cognition, of the said two; in the 'janana'-producing, bringing about of the said cognition. -'Arthanishchiti' here stands for mere observance, the vague non-determinate cognition ; because the subsequent determinate cognitions are in the nature of certainty itself.
Action,' is activity, causal character.-—(2850)
The following Texts explain the example of the Jar' as cited above :
