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## Gatha 312.314
**Doubt:** What is the difference between *ek* and *ekavidha*?
**Solution:** The perception of a single individual form of substance is *ek* (one), and the perception of a substance located in a single category or many substances is *ekavidha* (one kind). Alternatively, *ekavidha* is not included in *ekapratyay* (one perception), because it is associated with a single swallowing act, while *ekavidha* is associated with a single category in many individuals. Since category and individual are not the same, the perceptions that make them their objects cannot be the same.
The perception that grasps the meaning of *shina* (subtle) is *kshiprpratyay* (swift perception). *Kshipravrutti* (swift activity) means the swift perception that grasps a swift object. *Prashugrahana* (swift grasping) is *kshipra-avgraha* (swift perception). Grasping slowly (*shanaih*) is *akshipra-avgraha* (non-swift perception). Just as water received by a new earthen pot slowly makes it wet, similarly, the perception that slowly knows a substance is *akshipra-pratyay*.
The perception that grasps a whole object by relying on a part of it, and the perception that relies on a part or the whole of an object and makes another object that is not present there its object, is also *pranisruta* (emitted). This perception is not well-known, because sometimes the perception of a pot arises by relying on the mouth of the pot, sometimes it arises by relying on a part of the mouth, sometimes it is like a cow (i.e., it is a *gavaya*). In this way, or in other ways, the perception arises by relying on one object and making another object that is not present there its object. Sometimes, the perception of the other part is found at the time of grasping the mouth part, and this is also not well-known, because otherwise the perception of the object cannot be formed. And the mouth part alone cannot be the object, because it does not have the capacity to perform the action of the meaning.
**Doubt:** Why would the knowledge of the un-relied upon other part, etc., arising from relying on the mouth part, not be inferential knowledge?
**Solution:** No, because inferential knowledge makes a different meaning its object than the *linga* (sign). The knowledge of the other part that occurs at the same time as the knowledge of the mouth part cannot be inferential knowledge, because it is a perception-like knowledge. The knowledge that occurs at a different time also cannot be inferential knowledge, because it is included in the knowledge of the *iha* (this) due to its arising later.
Sometimes, the knowledge of the letters to be spoken later arises at the time of hearing one year, sometimes the knowledge of the object with two, three, etc., touches arises at the time of grasping one touch in an object that is extremely accustomed to many touches, and sometimes the knowledge of the object with another taste that is not contiguous in that region arises at the time of grasping one taste. Therefore, *pranisruta* perception is not *asinda* (uncertain). Other teachers read the word *nisruta* (emitted) in place of *pranisruta*, but that is...
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