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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XXIV.
cognition,--so also for us, there is restriction in regard to the Embellishment also ; whereby the Sound is not heard by people at a distance".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (2571).
HAVING BECOME EMBELLISHED ONCE, IF THE WORD-SOUND DOES NOT ABANDON THAT (EMBELLISHED) FORM, ON ACCOUNT OF ITS EVANESCENT CHARACTER, THEN IT SHOULD CONTINUE
TO BE HEARD FOR ALL TIME.
(2571)
COMMENTARY.
Even if the idea be that-"The Word-Sound that is embellished is one that is capable of bringing about the cognition within the chain of certain particular persons only "-there would be objections against it. For instance, if the Sound does not abandon the form which is capable of bringing about the cognition, then its cognition should continue to be produced for all time. If it abandons it, then it becomes evanescent, not eternal.--Hence it must be admitted that it is produced. -(2571)
It has been argued by the Mimamsaka in Text 2209, that—"As regards the view that there is embellishment of both, the assertion that it is open to both sets of objections is futile, etc. etc."
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (2572).
EVEN AS REGARDS THE VIEW THAT THERE IS EMBELLISHMENT OF BOTH, THE ASSERTION THAT IT IS OPEN TO BOTH SETS OF OBJECTIONS IS QUITE TRUE; BECAUSE DEFICIENCY IS NOT IN ONE OF THE TWO ONLY; AS THE PREVIOUS ONE CONTINUES.
-(2572)
COMMENTARY.
For those who hold the view that the Word-Sound is produced, it is possible that one or the other should be deficient; it is not possible for those who hold that there is Embellishment (not production); as for them, the previous embellished form would continue to exist.-(2572)
The said
continuity' is further clarified.
