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other hand, peroeives it for the purpose of eating. Therefore, the world is nothing but only the fiction of imaymation, 'Mit iB tot bo, reality should be perceived or thought the one for by the whole universe without any sort of sanketa or satys kara,
In this context Santeraksita refers to the view of Sumati and then refutes it from the Buddhist point of view. Acarya Sumatis argues accordingly that "all things have two aspects the Voiversal and the Particular. Consequently the universe is a combination of atoms which exist in two forms, viz. the common and uncommon. Of these the common form is apprchended by the senses, and the form of the atoms which is uncommon is held to be amenable to mystic perception." That means the compendium of atoms, tie so called Skandha is the universe, which we perceivt, and the atoms, which are so suhtle that they cannot be perceived by us, are perceived by the omniscient.
Thus the external world in the view of J inism is not imagination, but a multitude of atoms. It cannot he ignored, as perception of an entity which represents the external world is based on knowlege of feeling Since an entitv has diffcrent names it can be firtitious but its existence cannot re igno. red. The entity is paramirtha sat like knowledge or vija inas. Knou ledge can be dependent on the entity, but the entity cannot be dependent on krowledge. The innumerall thing in the world cannot be seen by tbe ordinary man, but it does not mean that they are not tn existence. 89
Santara kşita does not agree with these views. He remarks that they are the confounded assumptions of some dull-witted persons / durmatayah ). He argues that the two different forms of a thing must be different from each other. It cannot, therefore, be right to say that a single thing has two forms. The second and the most touching argument is raised to the effect that as the particular form of an entity is not entirely defferent from the universal form, there would be a possibility of the former being apprehended by the senses; and in that case there could
