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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXIV.
agencies" ;-that is nothing ; because the very idea of the manifesting agency' is going to be discarded.
This is what is said in the words- Soyam, etc, etc.'-Soyam' stands for the divergent notion.
Then again, even if the diversity in the Word were held to be based upon the diversity in the manifesters, and not upon the Word itself, then, there would be no confidence at all. This is the contingency that is indicated in the words. On this ground alone, etc. etc.— all this i.e. the entire universe.
"Let that be so ; what then ?”
Answer Hence there can be, etc. etc.'-There could be no ideas of difference, such as this is the manifester' and that the manifested', which is based upon diversity ;-as there is no difference at all. For example,
these words are human' and 'those others, like Shanno dèvih, etc. are not human-all such notions would not be possible for you who are so devoted to Recognition; as there is no distinction at all.-(2449-2452)
In the following Text, the Mimāmsaka shows how there can be distinction between the common (secular) words and the Vedic words -
TEXT (2453). "SOME WORDS ARE FOUND ALWAYS IN ONE AND THE SAME ORDER OF SEQUENCE, THE ORDER OF THE manifesters BEING FIXED; THESE WORDS ARE HELD TO BE not-human, APPEARING, AS THEY DO, ALWAYS IN THE SAME FIXED ORDER
OF SEQUENCE.”—(2453)
COMMENTARY.
Inasmuch as the order of sequence in the manifestors is fixed and rigid, there are certain words-such as Shanno dēvi, etc. which are always found in the same order; hence, as always appearing in the same order, they are regarded as not-human in origin. It follows by implication that those which are otherwise-i.e. not found always in the same orderare human.-(2453)
The above idea is rejected in the following: -
TEXT (2454). As A MATTER OF FACT, THE ORDER OF SEQUENCE IN THE MANIFESTING AGENCIES, PALATE AND OTHER SPEECH-CENTRES-IS SOMETHING THAT APPERTAINS TO MEN; HENCE IT IS POSSIBLE
THAT IT MAY BE OTHERWISE (2454)
COMMENTARY. That the words always appear in the same order cannot be admitted ; because the order in the words is held to be due to the order in the manifesters;