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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XXIV.
TEXT (2528).
THE REASON THAT IS PUT FORWARD, IN THE FORM 'BECAUSE THEY ARE EXTERNAL ORGANS', -IN SUPPORT OF THE VIEW THAT THE ORGANS IN QUESTION ARE OPERATIVE BY CONTACT, IS FALLACIOUS' (INCONCLUSIVE); BECAUSE IT IS UNLIKE THEIR OTHER PROPERTIES AND HENCE THERE IS CONTRADICTION
(INCOMPATIBILITY). (2528)
COMMENTARY
The meaning is clear.-(2528)
The following Text supplies the answer to what has been urged by the
nsaka, under the Text 2176, to the effect that,"Thus from the point of view of the Vedic Scholar, let us examine the matter, etc. etc.'s
TEXTS (2529-2530).
THE IDEA OF THE AIR-CURRENTS BEING SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM THE CONJUNCTIONS AND DISJUNCTIONS HAS BEEN ALREADY DISCARDED BEFORE ; AND INASMUCH AS THE AIR IS NOT-MOMENTARY (ACCORDING TO THE Mimāmsaka). THEY CANNOT BE THE SAME AS THE CONJUNCTIONS AND DISJUNCTIONS. FOR THE SAME REASON, AS THERE ARE NO DISTINCTIONS IN IT, THERE CAN BE NO MOVEMENT OF IT, SPECIALLY BECAUSE IT HAS NO VELOCITY, AND HENCE CANNOT GO ALONG AS LONG AS THE VELOCITY LASTS.
-(2529-2530)
COMMENTARY.
Before under the examination of the Six Categories
Says the Opponent-"If they are not different, then they may be nondifferent, same ".
Answer Inasmuch as the Air, etc. etc. -The Air-currents themselves, produced as conjoined and disjoined, are spoken of as the 'non-different Conjunctions and Disjunctions'; and what are non-momentary cannot become conjoined with things, in succession,-as they are all of one and the same form.-(2529-2530)
It has been asserted by the Mimamsaka, under Text 2179, that"Having reached the Akasha in the Auditory Organ, the Air imparts a certain capacity to that organ, etc. etc."
The answer to this is as follows:
