________________
"THE REVEALED WORD.”
1099
TEXTS (2346-2350).
"THUS THEN, IT SHOULD BE UNDERSTOOD CLEARLY THAT THE ASSERTION
IN THE VEDA IS NOT FALSE (UNRELIABLE) - BECAUSE IN THE EXPRESSTON OF ITS MEANING, IT IS NOT DEPRNDENT UPON A SPEAKER, JUST LIKE THE WORD IN THE EXPRESSION OF THE WORD-MEANING”.
---(2346). * THE COGNITIONS DERIVED FROM THE VEDA MUST BE RIGHT, BECAUSE
THEY ARISE FROM THE ETERNAL SENTENCE,-LIKE THE COGNITION OF THE SENTENCE ITSELF-THE ARGUMENTS DETAILED BEFORE ARS ALL APPLICABLE HERE".-[Shlokwartika-Sambandhaksepos, 2).
-(2347). "THE COCINITION BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE VEDIO INJUNCTION MUST BE
RELIABLE; (a) BECAUSE IT IS PRODUCED BY CAUSES FRER FROM ALL DEFECTS LIKE THE IDRAS PRODUCED BY THE INFERENTIAL INDICATIVE, OR BY THE ASSERTION OF TRUSTWORTHY PERSONS, OR BY PERCEPTION-(6) ALSO BECAUSE IT IS PRODUCED BY AN ASSERTION WHICH DOES NOT EMANATE FROM AN UNRELIABLE PERSON, AND BECAUSE IT IS FREE FROM SUBLATION AT ALL TIMES AND PLACES, LIKE THE IDEA PRODUCED BY THE ASSERTION OF A RELIABLE PERSON”.
- [Shlokavārtika, SUTRA 2, 184-185). (2348-2349) "IT BEING THUS ESTABLISHED THAT THE VEDA IS AUTHORITATIVE AND
RELIABLE, -THE LONGSTANDING BEGINNINGLESS LINE OF TEACHERS AND PUPILS THAT HAS BEEN ASSUMED TENDS TO PROVE THAT IT IS FRER FROM DEFECTS". (2350)
COMMENTARY.
That which produces a cognition, independently of the person using it, with regard to a certain thing, cannot be false in respect of that thing : e.g. the Word as bringing about the cognition of its own meaning the Vedio Sentence produces the cognition of its meaning, independently of any speaker in the shape of its Author - hence there is apprehension of a condition contrary to the wider condition-'falsity' being less wide' than being productive of cognitions through dependence upon the composing Person', which latter thus is the 'vyäpaka', the 'wider condition, the viruddha',
contrary, of this would be being productive of cognitions independently of the composing person'; and this latter condition is apprehended in the case of the Veda.
Like the Word in the expression of its meaning ' this is meant to show that Words are productive of cognitions in conformity with the real state of things; and the cognition produced by the word' is not meant to be the Corroborative Instance; the words themselves being that instance. --Thus then, in the argument, Word is the Minor Term; and what is sought to be proved in regard to it is its non-falsity on acoonnt of its being the cause of
