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" THE REVEALED WORD."
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Summing up the argument, the Author proceeds to show that when we do not find the canses (of truthfulness and falsity), there cannot be any possibility of the Veda being either true or false :
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TEXT (2355). THUS, INASMUCH AS THE CAUSES OF truthfulness and falsity,--IN THE SHAPR (a) OF WISDOM AND MEROY AND (6) OF ABSENCE OF MERCY, ETC., -ARE NOT THERE, THE SAID TWO QUALITIES
CANNOT BELONG TO THE VEDA.-(2355)
COMMENTARY.
Wisdom, etc. are the causes of truthfulness, while the absence of mercy, otc. are the causes of falsity-respectively.
The two-i.e. Truthfulness and Falsity.-(2355)
The following Tecs show what follows when the Veda is neither truthful nor false
TEXTS (2356-2357).
THUS THE VEDA IS REDUCED TO FUTILITY,-LIKE SUCH SENTENCES AS
SIX CAKES'.-IF IT BE ARGUED THAT "MEANINGS ARE ACTUALLY COMPREHENDED (FROM VEDIO SENTENCES), IN RESPECT OF ACTIONS AND AOTIVE AGENTS " THE ANSWER IS THAT THERE MAY BE SUCH COMPREHENSION IN CASES WHERE THERE ARE EXPLANATIONS SUPPLIED BY MEN,-AS IN THE CASE OF THE DOINGS OF Urvashi, EVEN THOUGH THE WORDS (OF THE VEDA) BY THEMSELVES DO NOT REALLY CONVEY ANY SUCH MEANING AT ALL.-AS HELD BY YOU. -(2356-2357)
COMMENTARY.
The Veda now turns out to be as futile' and meaningless as such stray uttorances of the mad-cap as 'six cakes', 'ten pomegranates' and the like.
Says the Mimāmsala--"In seeking to prove the futility of the Veda, the Buddhist makes his Proposition contrary to a perceptible fact; because it is directly perceived that the Vedic sentence actually provides the com. prehension of the idea that from the performance of the Agnihotra, follows the attainment of Heaven'. How then can this be denied ?"