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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXIV.
TEXTS (2632-2635).
AS THE UNDERSTANDING IS COME TO BY MANY PERSONS AT ONE AND THE
SAME TIME, THE CONVENTION IS NOT HELD TO BE DIFFERENT (WITH EACH INDIVIDUAL); JUST AS IN THE CASE OF THE ONE Blue-point. IT IS NOT THAT ONE CONNECTION OR RELATIONSHIP IS PRESENT IN THE MIND OF THE SPEAKER, AND AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ONE IN THAT OF THE HEARER; BECAUSE IT IS OF ONE AND THE SAME FORM AND IS PRESENT, AS SUCH, IN THE MINDS OF BOTH. WHEN THE SPEAKER PROCEEDS TO LAY DOWN A CONNECTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE HEARER, HE LAYS DOWN ONLY THAT CONNECTION WHICH HAS BEEN KNOWN TO HIMSELF FROM BEFORE. THUS, INASMUCH AS ITS RECOGNITION ALWAYS APPEARS IN THE SAME FORM, EVEN WHEN THE WORD, ETC. ARE DIFFERENT, HE COMES TO COGNISE THE ONENESS (OF THE CONNECTION).—(2632-2635)
COMMENTARY.
Just as the Blue-point, even when seen by several people, does not become diverse, similarly, even when the Convention regarding the connec. tion is made by several people, the connected (Word) will not become diverse; what to say of the case where only two persons are concerned ? That is to say, all the persons have the same notion regarding it. Consequently, the connection for the Hearer would not be different from that of the Speaker. (2632-2636)
It has boon argued by the Mimamsaka, under Text 2258, that"If it be argued that the same arguments apply to the Jar, etc. also, then the answer is that it is not so, because what is recognised in the case of these is the Universal, etc. etc.".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXTS (2636-2639). AS REGARDS THE JAB AND OTHER THINGS ALSO, THE UNIVERSAL HAS
BEEN ALREADY DISCARDED.—THE CONFIGURATION' ('UNIVERSAL') IS NOT HELD TO BE A QUALITY OF MATERIAL SUBSTANCES.-NOR IS THE CAPACITY OF THE JAR, TO CONTAIN WATER FOR INSTANCE, KNOWN FROM ITS 'UNIVERSAL ' -IF THE JAR, ETO. ARE NONDIFFERENT FROM THE UNIVERSAL', THEN, LIKE IT, THEY ALSO SHOULD BE ETERNAL. IF THEN, THEY ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE 'UNIVERSAL', THEN IT BECOMES OPEN TO OBJECTIONS RELATING TO THE RELATION BETWEEN THE TWO.-IY THE RELATIONSHIP WERE SOMETHING PRODUCED, THEN THE UNIVERSAL WOULD BE NON
