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imperceptible, for they are not possessed of gross magnitude (mahattva) and manifested colour (udbhūtarūpa)1 in them. But they can be perceived by the yogin with his supernatural intuitive vision which is free from the imposition of limitation of any external factors.2 Paramāņus cannot be apprehended by the tactile-sense organ nor can they be tasted by the senseorgan of taste nor can they be apprehended by the sense-organ of smell for want of magnitude and manifested touch, taste and smell respectively in them.3 But the sense-organs come into contact with ultimate atom4 for the Yogin. paramāņus are stated to be the material cause of the universe5 and thus inapprehensible to the sense in both collective and individual forms and they are endowed with quiddity (antyaviseșa) by which one is discriminated from the others? The numerical
Tena rasagandhasparsesu jñānam vyākhyātam,
VS. VI. 1. 9. 1. Mahatyanekadravyavattvāt rūpāccopalabdhiḥ, VS., 4. 1. 6;
Paramānormahattvābhāvādanupalabdhirityuktam bhavati Vyākhyā, Ibid; Dhāraņā karşanopapatteś:a, NS., II. 1. 36; Senāvanavad-grahaņamiti cennātIndriyatvādaņūnām, NS., II. 137. Indriyajamapi dvividham sarvajñiyamasarvajñiyañca sarvajñiyaṁ yogajadharmalaksaņayā pratyāsattyā tattatpadārthasārthajñānam, tathā hi paramāṇavaḥ...acintyaprabhāvo hi yogajadharmo na sahakāryāntaramapeksate, VSU., VIII. 1. 2; PPBhā., p. 97;
NV., II. 1. 35, p. 230 3. NVTTP, VS. Fol. 26. 4. NV., IV. 1. 33. 5. Tatkāritatvādahetuḥ, NV. 1. 21. 6. Sā ceyamavayavajanyā na tvanusamhatimātram, etc.,
NLV, p. 8. Prakāśa on NLV., p. 122. 7. Pșthivyādinām navānāmapi dravyatvayogaḥ svātmanyāram
bhakatvam guṇavattvam kāryakāranāvirodhitvamantyavišeşivattvam, PPB ha., p. 7.
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