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TATTYASANGRAHA : CHAPTER VIII.
and the Objects of Right Cognition, the Thing of Variegated Character coloured with the various tints of the Emerald, etc., an Entity continuing during all these points of time, the four Elemental Substances postulated by the Charudka and the Materialists, and the Mass of Words (Veda) posited by the followers of Jaimini.
Clearly ',-because for the proof set forth, there is a Reason that satisfies all the three conditions of the valid Probans.
What is meant by this is that in reality, the whole purpose of our philo. sophy reaches its culminating point in this examination of the Permanent Character of things.-(350-351)
The Author proceeds to show how this Perpetual Fuais established -
TEXT (352) SOME PEOPLE HOLD THAT THERE ARE TWO CLASSES OF THINGSCreated AND Uncreated ; OTHERS HAVE HELD THAT
THE TWO CLASSES OF THINGS ARE Momentary AND Non-momen
tary. (352)
COMMENTARY In this connection, the followers of Nyāya and others do not regard anything as momentary', and they hold that there are two classes of things in the shape of Created' and 'Uncreated '; among things some are created', -as the jar and the rest, while some are uncreated as the Atom, Aksha, etc.
Others however,-like Vätsiputriyas-hold that there is a further classification of things under the two heads of momentary' and 'non-momentary'; that is, according to these people, such things as Cognition, Sommd, Light-rays, are momentary, wbilo such things as Earth and Akasha are nonmomentary (352)
Such being the diversity among the various views, the Author first of all proceeds to set forth reasonings in support of the Perpetual Flux of those things that are held to be Created', which thus form the Subject' of the Reasoning set forth:
TEXT (353) AMONG THESE, ALL THOSE THINGS THAT ARE CREATED' ARH IN
PERPETUAL FLUX',-BECAUSE, AS REGARDS THEIR DESTRUCTION, ALL OF THEM ARE ENTIRELY
INDEPENDENT.(353)
COMMENTARY As regards their destruction, things are independent of other Causes.-- This briefly indicates the Reason which fulfills all the three conditions of the Valid Probang.--(353)
This reason is more clearly stated in the following
