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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XXIV.
TEXTS (2121-2130).
* (1) THE NOTIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL cow-bord, THOUGH DIVERSE
IN POINTS PLACE, TIME, ETC., MUST ALL ENVISAGE THE SAME Couword,THEY DO NOT ENVISAGE SEVERAL WORDS, BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS APPEAR IN THE FORM Cow -LIKE THE NOTION OF 'Cow' THAT APPEARS AT THE PRESENT MOMENT.---(2) THE NOTION OF THE cow-word THAT APPEARED YESTERDAY ENVISAGED THIS SAME courword,-BECAUSE IT ENVISAGED THE COw-word,-LIKE THE NOTION APPEARING TO-DAY.-(3) THIS NOTION ENVISAGES THAT COW-word, FOR THE SAME SAID REASON, LIKE THE PREVIOUS NOTION. (4) BOTH NOTIONS ENVISAGE THE SAME Coro-word-LIKE THE SINGLE NOTION.-(5) ALL NOTIONS OF THE Cow', DIVERGENT AS REGARDS PLACE, TIME, ETC., ARE BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE SAME COw-word,
-BECAUSE THEY ARE NOTIONS OF THE Cow', LIKE THE SINGLE NOTION.-(6) THE CO-word THAT WAS UTTERED YESTERDAY MUST EXIST TODAY ALSO, BECAUSE IT IS ENVISAGED BY THE COGNITION OF THE COw-roord,-LIKE THE SAME WORD UTTERED TODAY.-(7) THE Cow-word THAT IS HEARD TODAY WAS HEARD BY ME YESTERDAY ALSO; FOR THE AFORESAID REASON, LIKE THE WORD UTTERED YESTERDAY.-(8) ALL SUCH WORDS AS ARE EXPRESSIVE MUST BE REGARDED AS LASTING A LONG TIME, BECAUSE THEY BRING ABOUT THE COGNITION OF THE COGNISABLE THING THROUGH THE APPREHENSION OF RELATIONSHIPS, EVERYTHING THAT DOES THIS HAS BEEN FOUND TO BE PERMANENT, -LIKE THE UNIVERSAL ' ASPECT OF Smoke.(9) THAT WHICH DENOTES THINGS THROUGH THE APPREHENSION OF RELATIONSHIPS CANNOT BE EVANESCENT, BECAUSE IT MUST HAVE ITS RELATIONSHIP CONTINUING TILL THE TIME OF USE, LIKE THE LIGHT OF THE LAMP AND THE LIGHTNING-THUS THE IDEA OF WORD-SOUND BEING NON-ETERNAL IS ANNULLED BY ALL THESE INFERENCES WHICH MUST BE ADMITTED TO BE PERFECTLY SOUND. CONSEQUENTLY IT BECOMES ESTABLISHED THAT WORDS ARE ETERNAL,"-(2121-2130)
COMMENTARY. "(1) The notions that appear in connection with the individual words Cow', -though divergent through diversities of place, time, quick, middling and prolonged, and so forth, -all envisage the same word they do not envisage diverse words,- because they all appear in the same form Cow'. like the notion of the cow-word appearing at the present time.
"Or, (2) Whenever there is notion of the word 'Cow, it must be taken as referring to the word 'Cow'appearing to-day, because it envisages the word Cow', like the word appearing to-day ;-the notion of the word appearing yerterday envisager the same word. This is thus a Reason based upon the nature of things.