Book Title: Tattva Kaumudi
Author(s): Oriental Book Agency Poona
Publisher: Oriental Book Agency Poona

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________________ -VII55] Things known through Revelation (53) Question-" Is it only the Inference based on general observation that is effective in bringing about the cognition of all supersensuous things? If that were so, then it would mean that no such things exist as Heaven, Unseen Force, Divinities, or the order of evolution of the Mahat and the other Principles,-in regard to which the said Inference is not applicable. "-In answer to this it is added- That inperceptible thing etc.;' what was intended to be said would have been secured by the use of the term 'Tasmat' only; hence the presence of the particle 'ca' is to be taken as meant to include the A Posteriori Inference also. (54) 'Granted all this. But the non-perception of such objects as 'sky-flowers, tortoises Objection hair, hare's horns' and the like leads to their being regarded as non-existent; in the same way we might infer the non-existence of Nature and the rest (which are, like sky-flowers, not amenable to perception). This. being the case, why should the existence of them be sought to be proved by a recourse to the various kinds of Inference?" The answer to this is as follows TRANSLATION 66 The different causes of the non-perception of objects, explained * 27 Karika VII (Non-perception of things arises) from excessive distance, proximity, destruction of the sense-organs, absence of mind, subtlety, intervention, suppression, (of other objects), and intermixture with other like objects. (55) From excessive distance -The "non-perception" of the following Karika is to be construed along with this, in accordance with the maxim of the Lion's back-ward glance'* • 4. The maxim of the lion's back-ward glance' is generally used. to mark the connection of a thing with what precedes and follows. "

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