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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XX.
TEXTS (1736-1737).
BY THEIR VERY NATURE, THE SAID ATOMS ARE THE BASIS OF THE RECOGNITION THAT ENVISAGES THE SALIENT FEATURES OF THE Man AND THE Lion-AS IS CLEAR FROM THE FACT OF ITS ARISING FROM A PARTICULAR IDEA. IN THIS SAME WAY ARE THE VARIEGATED GEMS AND OTHER CASES DISPOSED OF THE VARIEGATED CHARACTER, BASED UPON THE PRESENCE OF SEVERAL FORMS, IS CERTAINLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH
unity.-(1736-1737)
COMMENTARY.
The Recognition that envisages the features of the body of the Man and the Lion (in the body of Narasimha),---of that the only cause or basis consists of the atoms (composing those features): what then, would be the use of assuming the composite whole (Body)?
If it be asked-Whence this 'nature of the Atoms 2-The answer isAs is clear from the fact of its arising out of a particular Idea'; i.e. because it proceeds from a particular cause; the particular idea' in this case is in the shape of the past deed leading up to the particular state of existence, and also the factors and other parts of the body peculiar to the particular animal-species.
What has been said regarding the case of Narasimha also serves to dispose of the case of the glittering gems, etc. ;-and it is not necessary to criticise them separately.-(1736-1737)
It has been argued (by the Jaina writer, under Text 1716) that," in the form of entities all things are not-different from one another.”—This is answered in the following
TEXTS (1738-1744). BEING AN ENTITY' IS SAID TO CONSIST IN CAPACITY FOR EFFECTIVE
ACTION'; IF THIS WERE ALL-PERVASIVE, THEN EVERY THING WOULD BE CAPABLE OF DOING EVERY THING. GENERALLY, ONE THING IS HELD TO BE PRODUCTIVE OF ANOTHER, ONLY BY REASON OF THE PRESENCE, IN IT, OF THE CAPACITY FOR THAT ACTION; IF THEN, THAT CAPACITY IS EQUALLY PRESENT IN ANOTHER THING, WHY SHOULD NOT THIS BE PRODUCTIVE OF THE SAME ?-IF THE BLUE AND OTHER OBJECTS THEMSELVES ARE HELD TO CONSTITUTE THE ALL-EMBRACING CHARACTER OF 'ENTITY' THEN THE white AND yellow THINGS ALSO WOULD DO WHAT IS DONE BY THE Blue ONE; AND IN THAT CASE, THE WHOLE UNIVERSE WOULD BECOME A SINGLE 'ENTITY', DEVOID OF A SECOND; AND THUS IT WOULD