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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXIV.
such things as forest-fire, there are wrong cognitions in regard to the Blue Lotus and such things [the Blue Lotus appearing Red under the glare of the extensive fire].
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Dava-vahni'-is the wild fire burning in the woods. What is meant to be cited as the source of wrong cognition is that Fire which starts by itself through the friction of dried bamboos, etc. in the forest. That fire on the other hand which is produced by men by rubbing together of two sticks, this cannot be regarded as 'not the work of man'; and hence this could not invalidate the Mimamsaka's Reason.
Forest-fire and the like'-' and the like' is meant to include the Mirage and such phenomena.-(2403)
How these are the source of wrong cognitions is shown in the following:
TEXT (2404).
IN THE GLARE OF FIRE, THE Blue LOTUS APPEARS AS Red.-IF IT IS SAID THAT "IN THIS CASE THE FIRE IS THE CAUSE OF THE WRONG COGNITION, AND IS A product (NOT ETERNAL) "-[THEN,
THE ANSWER IS AS IN THE FOLLOWING Text]. -(2404)
COMMENTARY.
The following might be said (by the Mimämsaka)-"The mere fact of not being the work of a person has not been put forward by us as the Reason (for Reliability),-what is meant by us to be the Reason is that fact along with the fact of not being a product.-Or it is this character of not being a product that is indicated by the character of not being the work of a Person. Hence the Reason is not rendered Inconclusive by the case of the Forest fire, which is a product (with a beginning)".
This is the Mimamsaka's answer which is anticipated and set forth in the words- In this case, the Fire, etc. etc."
'Taddhatuḥ'-the source of wrong cognition.--(2404)
The answer to the above is as follows:
TEXT (2405).
DOES THE CHARACTER OF BEING A PRODUCT' MAKE THINGS THE SOURCE OF WRONG COGNITIONS? IN THAT CASE, Smoke WOULD NOT
BE THE CORRECT INDICATOR OF FIRE.-(2405)
COMMENTARY.
That alone can be a qualification of the Reason (Probans) which serves to differentiate the Probans from the contrary of the Probandum;-other