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:139: ___ Trans. 138. On account of acute subtlety of time etc. you take an action taking place at different times as simultaneous as in the case of boring a hole into hundred petals of lotus or (rotating of) a circular series of (burning) coal. 2433.
टीका-१३८ समयावलिकादिकालकृतविभागस्य सूक्ष्मत्वाद् भिन्नकालमपि कालविभागेन प्रवृत्तमपि क्रियाद्वयसंवेदनमुत्पलपत्रशतवेधवद् युगपत् प्रवृत्तमिव मन्यसे त्वम् । न हि उत्पलपत्रशतमौत्तराधर्येण व्यवस्थापितं सुतीक्ष्णयापि सूच्या छेकेन समर्थेनापि च वेधकर्ता समकालमेव विध्यते, किन्तु कालभेदेन, उपर्युपरितनेऽविद्धेऽधोधोवर्तिनः पत्रस्य वेधायोगात् , अथ च वेधकर्ता युगपद् विहितमेव वेधं मन्यते, तद्वेधनकालभेदस्य सूक्ष्मत्वेन दुर्लक्षत्वात् । यथा वा वत् प्रसिद्धमलातचक्रं कालभेदेन दिक्षु भ्रमदपि भ्रमणकालभेदस्य सूक्ष्मत्वेन दुरवगमत्वाद् निरन्तरभ्रमणमेव लक्ष्यते । एवमिहापि शीतो-ष्णक्रियानुभवकालभेदस्य सूक्ष्मत्वेन दुरवसेयत्वाद् युगपदिव तदनुभवं मन्यते भवानिति ॥२४३३॥ D. C.
Acārya:-When a strong person bores a hole into a hundred petals of lotus with a small needle after arranging the one over the other, he thinks that all the petals are pierced through simultaneously. But really speaking, that is not so. A petal beneath is not pierced unless and until the one above it is actually pierced through. Thus, really, every petal is pierced through one after the other, and hence, at different times. This difference in tine is so minute that the person boring the hole, is not able to mark it.
So, also, when a circular series of burning coal is rotated, it does rotate in different directions at different times. But the timegap between every two directions is so small due to its quick speed, that one apprehends it only as moving constantly in one direction. The same is the case here also.
Sensations of heat and cold are definitely felt at different times, but they are not so apprehended because of subtlety of time eto.
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