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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXIV.
through Convention ? Any Convention that is made here cannot be indica. tive of any other meaning: if it did, there would be incongruities".
This does not affect our position. What is meant here by the term Desire to Speak' is that which, even when in confusion as to being in the form of the object or in its own form, does not vary with it. Because in reality it is only this that has the nature of the 'Desire to Speak
And it is this particular form of the 'Desire to Speak' that is meant here. Convention also is made in relation to this Desire, not in regard to the Specific Individuality of things, and hence that same particular Desire is what is indicated by the word. Thus alone is it possible for it to be conceived of in that form. Mere desire in general cannot be expressed by the word; as has been explained above.—(2621)
Question :-“If, as just explained, the causal relation of the Word is only with such form of the Object as varies with the speaker's desire to speak', -then, how is it that in several places, great teachers have declared the relationship of the Word to consist in the Convention itself, -or to be based upon Convention ?" Answers
TEXTS (2622-2623).
IT IS ONLY WHEN THE CONVENTION IS THERE THAT THERE COMES ABOUT THE CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP OF THE WORD WITH THE OBJECT VARYING WITH THE SPEAKER'S INTENTIONS. IT IS ON THIS ACCOUNT THAT IT HAS BEEN DECLARED TO BE DUE TO CONVENTION': AND INASMUCH AS IT IS MANIFESTED BY CONVENTION, THE SAID RELATIONSHIP COMES TO BE SPOKEN OY As CONVENTION ITSELF,-BUT NOT DIRECTLY,
(ONLY FIGURATIVELY).-(2622-2623)
COMMENTARY.
Samayika ', 'conventional', is that which comes about-is presentwhen the 'Samaya '-Convention is present in the mind of the hearer, The term is formed from the noun samaya' with the nominal affix Than'. Though this affix has been ordained as to be used in the sense of mere presence, yet, in reality, there being no difference between presence and coming into existence, in the present instance, it is the latter that is meant.
The Convention itself is present in the subjective chain of the Speaker; and as the said relationship is manifested by that, the relationship comes to be spoken of as Convention itself; but only figuratively. And it is not always present every time that the Word is used, as it appears only at certain times.—(2622-2623)
Says the Opponent-"If, as has been said, there is no real relationship between the Object and the Word, then how does the said causal relationship come about ?"
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