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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER VII.
TEXT (249)
IT SUCH IS THE CASE, THEN, ON THE OCCASION WHEN THERE APPEAR COGNITIONS IMPOSING THE CONCEPTS OF ELEPHANT ' AND THE REST IN REFERINCE TO SPOTS WHERE THESE ANIMALS DO NOT EXIST, --TO WHAT IS THE DIVERSITY
IN SUCH COGNITIONS DUE ?
COMMENTARY.
If the diversity of the Cognition is due to the diversity in the objects cognised, -then, what is the basis for the diversity that appears in the case of those Cognitions which successively impose the concepts of the elephant
horse' and the rest upon a place where the elephants do not really exist ? The meaning is that in such cases there is no basis at all for the notion of such diversity, Because, there is no difference in the Cognitions per se; as all Cognition is beld to be one (by the Mimūnsaka). Nor can the diversity be due to the multiplicity of the objects imposed; as there is no object that does the imposing.-(240)
The following might be urged:-"The idea that a Cognition may be devoid of a real object is not true; as has been declared by Kumarila
It is not admitted that even in the case of Dreams and other such Cognitions, # real external object is entirely absent ; in every case there is an external background, only conceived of in connection with a wrong place and timo'. [Shlokavārtika, Nirālambanavāda, 107-108].""
This is the view presented in the following Text :
TEXT (250).
IF THE INDIVIDUAL OBJECTS EXISTING AT OTHER TIMES AND PLACES BE
HELD TO SUPPLY THE BASIS FOR SUCH IMPOSED COGNITIONS, ON THE GROUND THAT IN ALL COGNITIONS THE BASIS OF REALITY IS SUPPLIED BY OBJECTS EXISTING AT TIMES AND PLACES OTHER THAN THOSE OF THE APPEARANCH OF THE COGNITIONS TIEMSELVES,--[then the answer would be as stated in the
following Text).-(250)
COMMENTARY, * Basis, i.e. the cause of the notion of diversity among Cognitions. The compound deshakālānyathātmakam' is to be analysed as that of which the time and place are otherwise'; -or as that of which the differentiation is done by time and place',-(250)
The answer to this is given in the following Text:
