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" THE REVEALED WORD."
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How the use could be determined and indicated is next explained :
TEXTS (2293-2294).
* SUCH UNIVERSALS AS THE 'PALATE', ETC. ARE ALWAYS PRESENT (IN
THEIR UNIVERSAL OR COMMON FORM) IN ALL MEN; AND IT IS THROUGH THESE THAT THE SPEAKER EMITS THE Articulations ; AND THERE ARE DISTINCT UNIVERSALS OF THESE (ARTICULATIONS) ALSO, WHICH SERVE TO BRING ABOUT THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SOUNDS, AND THERE ARE AS MANY OF THESE AS THERE ARE LETTERS OR IT IS THE PARTICULAR INDIVIDUALS (ARTICULATIONS) THEMSELVES AS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SAID UNIVERSALS THAT BRING ABOUT THE MANIFESTATION OF THE PARTICULAR LETTER-SOUNDS."-[Shlokavārtika-ETERNALITY OF WORDS, 296-297].-(2293-2294)
COMMENTARY.
Such Universals as 'the Palate' and other speech-centres subsist in the individual Palates of all men; and as such are present in all men ;it is through these Universals that the Speaker determines these speech. centres, and then emits-exhales-through them the Articulations in the shape of the manifestive air-currents ; this is in accordance with the maxim that there can be no idea of the Qualified until there is cognition of the Qualification'.
Though these Articulations are evanescent,-yet like the Universal Cow' and the like, there are as many Universals' as there are Letters; and these same Universals, associated with the Individuals, become mani. festaters of the Letter-Sounds.
Or, the individual Articulations themselves, associated with the Universals, proceed to manifest the Sounds in consonance with the Letters. This is an alternative view.-(2293-2294)
Says the Opponent-Though there are distinct Universals of the Articulations, yet, even when these Articulations are marked by those Universals, they cannot bring about the particular order in which the Letters are mani. fested, unless the Order is there. Because even though, through their respective Universals, they are distinct from one another, yet there can be no Order inherent in themselves; because they are impartite things. Under the circumstances, how can there be any idea of the Order among Letters, brought about by the Order in their manifester ? The Mimāmsaka's answer to this is as follows:
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