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First Chapter
SUTRA 19. न चक्षर निद्रियाभ्याम् ॥१९ ।
Na Chakshu ranindriya bhyam. This is not possible to the eye or the mind. (It is possible to the remaining four senses. )
Thus the kinds of perception of indeterminable objects are 48 i. e. the 4 senses can each know as indeterminable thing in its 12 aspects of Bahu, etc
Thus the total number of kinds of sensitive knowledge is 288+48-336.
SUTRA 20 श्रुतंमति पूर्वद्वनेके द्वादश भेदम् ॥२०॥ Shrutam matipurvam dvyaneka dvadasha bhedam.
Shruta or Scriptural knowledge is always preceded by sensitive knowledge It is of two kinds, one of which has twelve and the other many divisions
A man hears the word Ship this is sensitive-knowledge.
The sound raises the qualities of a Ship in his mind, as he may have read or heard of them, this is Scriptural knowledge.
It is of two kinds 7 faz Anga-prarishta contained in the Angas There are 12 Angas.
Angas-Vahya, out of the Angas These n0n-Anga Scriptures arc of many kinds
Shruta literally means that which is heard (Sri lo hear ). Scriptural knowledge is of two kinds.
(1) Verbal, lettered ( T1A¥ Aksharatmaka) (2) Non-verbal, letterless (
H IHF Anaksharutmaka) Verbal scriptural knowledge is derived froin words which are composed of letters (9 Akshara), spoken or written; as when the eye sees the wiitten word or the car hears the Spoken word "soul" The seeing and hearing gives us merely sensitive knowledge (Muti inana). What more we think about the meaning and connotation of the word "soul" is scriptural knowledge. It is called verbal, because It is derived from our sensitive knowledge of the word "soul",
