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## Verse 316
**Knowledge Path/366**
The destruction and pacification of the varna (categories) are often different, therefore, their distinctions and the distinctions of external causes are related to the knowledge of the scriptures.
**Doubt:** When one who has attained the subject matter of the original scriptures, knows the word-bound pudgala skandha, which holds the distinctions of varna, pada (words), vakya (sentences), etc., and the other related things, such as the water-holding function of the purusha ghata, which is indicated by the object of the eye, etc., or the ashes, etc., from fire, etc., then there is benefit from the scriptures. Therefore, the characteristic of the scriptures being prior to the mind is flawed because it includes the flaw of being applicable to everything heard.
**Solution:** This is not the case, because even when there is an obstacle, the previous word still has its effect. For example, Pataliputra is east of Mathura. Therefore, in the acceptance of the mind being prior, both direct and traditional acceptance of the mind being prior are included.
The knowledge that arises from the cause of scriptural knowledge is also scriptural knowledge. Still, there is no contradiction with the sutra "Scriptural knowledge happens with the mind being prior," because the said sutra is said with respect to the initial occurrence of scriptural knowledge.
Previous cause and reason are synonymous.
**Distinction of Scriptural Knowledge**
There are countless distinctions of scriptural knowledge that are not based on letters, in relation to the increase of the position of the word. The proof of scriptural knowledge based on letters is one out of the six positions of the sixth category in the two-category class.
**Verse:** The distinctions of scriptural knowledge that are not based on letters are countless in relation to the increase of the position of the word. The proof of scriptural knowledge based on letters is one out of the six positions of the sixth category in the two-category class.
**Special Meaning:** The subtle knowledge that is sufficient for the attainment of the subtle nigoda is called the letter of attainment.
**Doubt:** Why is this called a letter?
**Solution:** Because it remains in one form without destruction, the knowledge of only one is a letter. Because there is no increase or decrease in it. In relation to the principle of the abundance of substance, the subtle knowledge that is sufficient for the attainment of the subtle nigoda is the same. Therefore, this knowledge is called a letter.
**Doubt:** What is its proof?
**Solution:** Its proof is the infinite part of the knowledge of only one.
This knowledge is without covering, because the infinite part of the letter is always revealed, or