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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER X.
ble by the serises.- In fact, it is for people who regard Atons us eternal, that the appearance of peculiar features in the Atoms being impossible, they would be always beyond the reach of the senses not so for us.
inyonyablisarah'- as mutually helpful, i.e. as helping each other. -(584)
The following text also shows that Atoms are perceptible by the senses :
TEXT (585).
THE
BLUE AND OTHER SHAPES HAVE BEEN POSTULATED IN REGARD TO THE ATOMS THEMSELVES; AND THE VISUAL AND OTHER COGNITIONS ALSO SERVE TO MANIFEST ONLY THOSE
BLUE AND OTHER SHAPES (585)
COMMENTARY.
Question: "Atoms are lield to exist in a sequential form-one after the other ;-and certainly they are not perceived in that form; then low can they be anid to be perceptible 1"
Answer :
TEXT (586).
THOUGH THEY ARE NOT PERCEIVED IN THE SEQUENTIAL FORM,TET THRIR perceptibility CANNOT BE DENIED,—IT BEING SIMILAR TO
THAT OF DRINKS AND OTHER THINGS.—(586)
COMMENTARY.
The term 'adhyaksatābādha' may be taken as a genitive Tatpuruşu compound, meaning-non-denial of Perceptibility';-or it may not bo treated as a compound but two separate words adhyaksata' and 'abūdha', -the meaning being 'Perceptibility is undeniable': i.e. there being no annulment of it, it cannot be denied.
It being similar, etc.;-.e. its perceptibility remains as undenied as the perceptibility of Drinks and other things. For instance, in the case of a
Drink, the Taptopala (1 Heated or Burnt, Stone, & medicinal preparation), the Satahema' [? Quick-silver and gold, another modicinal preparation, the Makaradhvaja ), and such things, where the constituent atoms are of mixed characters (tastes), they are actually perceived as such. In the case of these things, there is no composite substance ' (apart from the constituent Atoms), the things consisting of heterogeneous elements. In fact, if the Composite were something different from the Atoms, no conjuno. tion arnong thern could be visible; because the substratum of such conjunction -.e. the Atoms-are unseen (ex hypothesi); and if even one of the factors of the Conjunction is not visible, the Conjunction cannot be perceived ; e.g.
