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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XVIIT
anything external (objective): all that the world does is to indicate the presence of Smoke; and it is through Convention that it brings about the conceptual Cognition (associated with words), and hence, in reference to the external thing, it comes to be described as being for the benefit of others'. And when what is meant to be understood is only the Speaker's wish to speak. then it turns out to be for the Speaker's own benefit! Because it is held to be indicative of the Speaker's wish to speak of what contains the Smoke, which is the effect of the statement in question; it is indicative, not expressive, of it; because no other cognition is comprehended from it.
*Your assertion is useless':-.e. the assertion that "Inference is not the means of right cognition " --Because as a matter of fact, from the said statement, no person to whom it is addressed, comprehends what you wish to speak of. This shows that your assertion involves self-contradiction:This has been explained previously.- (1479-1481)
Purandara has argued as follows: What is known as Inference, in the ordinary world, is admitted by the Charākas also: what they deny is that foron of Inference which people have set up, beyond that known in common experience"
This is anticipated and answered in the following
TEXTS (1482-1483).
IF IT BE URGED THAT "WHAT IS ORDINARILY KNOWN AS THE
INFERENTIAL. INDICATIVE IS ACCEPTED BY US, BUT NOT WHAT HAS BEEN SET UP BY OTHERS", -THEN (THE ANSWER IS THAT) EVEN THE ORDINARY MAN UNDERSTANDS WHAT IS THE 'CAUSE', ETO, OF THR Effect, etc.; AND IN REALITY, THIS IS ALL THAT THE MASTERS OF THE SOIENCE OP REASONING ALSO HAVE DECLARED. SO THAT WHEN THE ORDINARY (POPULAR) IDEA IS ACCEPTET), WHAT IS IT THAT BECOMES EXCLUDED :-(1482-1483)
COMMENTARY
The construction is the ordinary man understands, etc. eto.
Effect, etc.'-'Eto.' is meant to include the nature of the thing. - Similarly in 'Cause, etc.', the nature' is meant to be included. In both casos the Plural number has been used in view of individual things.
Thus then, the Inferential Indicative which is understood by ordinary men to be related through the relationship of Nature' and Effect', - is just what has been spoken of by us as the 'Probans'; and when you accept this, what is it that you discard, for which you are den ving the character of Inference (1482-1483)
