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fines Valid Assertion— Valid Assertion is right revelation'; "Valid Assertion''āptavacana' is the term to be defined. and the rest of the sentence is its definition; the term 'āptas'ruti' means that 'S'ruti', revelation, which is 'āpta': ‘right"; the term 'revelation 'stands for that Cognition of the meaning of a sentence which is brought about by that sentence. (41) This Valid Assertion is self-sufficient in its
authority; i. e. it is always right, in as much 'Valid Assertion as it is brought about by the words of the is self-sufficient in its authority Veda which being independent of human
authorship, is free from all defects (that make words unreliable). It is for this same reason that the knowledge derived from the Itihāsa and the Smrti, which are based upon the Veda, is regarded as right. (42) As regards the primeval sage Kapila (the founder
of the Sārikhya Philosophy ), it is possible Reliability of the that he remembered the revealed texts that
he had studied during previous time-cycles; ust as things known on the previous day are remembered on the next day, after waking from sleep. That such remembrance is possible is indicated by the conversation between Avațya, and Jaigīşavya, where the revered Jaigişavya speaks of his remembering things that occurred in past lives, extending over ten Time-cycles in the text-' while I was evolving during ten Time-cycles etc., etc. (43) The introduction of the epithet 'āpta' Right', in
the term 'Right Revelation ('āptavacanam'); Pseudo-Revela. serves to exclude all pseudo-revelations, such tions
as the scriptures of the 'S'ākya-Bhiksu (Buddhist) the 'Nirgranthaka' (Jaina), the 'Samsāramocaka" (Materialist who regards killing an animal virtuous because it frees it from the pains of existence) and others. That these scriptures are not right is to be inferred from (a) internal
