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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXIV.
Not different from other things '-.e. it is non-different from other things. Because the nature of the Time that is manifested in the phenomenon consisting of the seed-sprout-creeper does not in any way differ from that which is manifested in the Letters. ***** (Lacuns in Text).
Not phases of time'-because there is no such thing as Time. Even if it exists, its divisibility is not admitted.
The rest is easily intelligible.-(2694-2698)
TEXTS (2699-2704).
THE PRESUMPTION PUT FORWARD IN SUPPORT OF THE ETERNALITY OF
ALL THINGS HAS BEEN ALREADY DISCARDED. IT HAS ALSO BEEN PROVED THAT THE COMPREHENSION OF THE MEANINGS OF WORDS IS POSSIBLE ONLY WHEN WORDS ARE NOT ETERNAL.-WHEN ONE LETTER-SOUND IS PRODUCED BY THE DESIRE TO UTTER,' FOLLOWING FROM THE DESIRE TO UTTER ANOTHER LETTER-SOUND, THE PORMER IS HEARD IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE LATTER THE COGNITION PROCEEDING FROM THE COGNITION OF THE PRECEDING LETTER IS NOT HEARD VERY QUICKLY ; IN FACT, WITH THE AID OF THE REMEMBRANCES OF THE PREVIOUS LETTERS, THE LATTER BRINGS ABOUT ITS OWN REMEMBRANCE LATER ON. THUS IT HAS THE CHARACTER OF AN Effect, IN RELATION TO THE COGNITIONS LEADING UP TO, AND APPREHENDING, IT.OR, THE ORDER OF THE LETTERS MAY BE DEPENDENT UPON MEN. FROM ALL THIS IT FOLLOWS THAT THE LETTERS CLEARLY VARY WITH EACH WORD; AS IS FOUND IN THE CASE OF SUCH WORDS AS 'Dama Mada', 'Latā! Tāla' ETC., WHERE THE LETTERS ARE THE SAME BUT THEIR ORDER DIFFERENT IN THE TWO WORDS. IT IS UNDER THIS ORDER OF SEQUENCE THAT THESE WORDS BECOME EXPRESSIVE OF DIFFERENT MEANINGSCONSEQUENTLY, THE ASSUMPTION OF THE 'Sphota' ALSO IS ABSOLUTELY FUTILE IN THIS CONNECTION.—(2599-2704)
COMMENTARY.
The Presumption has been discarded. -Under Text 2617, it has been shown that the Presumption is wrong and also annulled by other means of Cognition.
[The text is corrupt.)
The upshot oi the whole of this argument is as follows:- In the chain of the Speaker, from his desire to speak, there arises a series of Cognitions, each member of which is produced by its predecessor and these ideas arouse each Letter-sound; thus the several Letter-sounds come about ; and these directly produce, in the chain of the Hearer, successive Cognitions, -each member of which is helped by its predecessor; later on, these Cognitions
