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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXIV.
Says the Opponent :-"Even so, as the Letters will have ceased long ago, they do not exist at the time of the comprehension : how then could they enter into the cumulative Cognition ? ”
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (2726).
ALL THIS IS QUITE COMPATIBLE WITH THE VIEW THAT COGNITIONS HAVE FORMS; OTHERWISE, AS THEY WOULD BE DESTROYED, HOW
COULD THEY FIGURE IN THE REMEMBRANCE ?-(2726)
COMMENTARY.
Question "Why is it not compatible with the view that Cognitions have no forms ?"
Answer: - Otherwise, etc. etc..
Thus the cumulative cognition that Kumärila has urged against the upholder of the Sphota-that “when the last Letter has been cognised, there is a simultaneous Remembrance of all the rest, brought about by the impressions of these ” [Shlokavirtika, Sphota, 112, reproduced here under
Text 2721, with a slight variation]-is true only in accordance with our view, not in accordance with the Mimāmsala's view, that Cognitions are formless. This is what is meant by the Text.-(2726)
Says the Opponent:--"It is true according to the Mimümsakas also ; because under their view, the Letters are not destroyed; hence there is nothing to prevent their figuring in the cognition; it is only that their appearance has become concealed ; they are there all the same ".
This is what is anticipated in the first part of the following Text, and answered by the last part beginning with 'It cannot be so':
TEXT (2727).
IF IT IS ARGUED THAT" THE PREVIOUSLY COGNISED LETTERS HAVE ONLY THEIR APPEARANCE OONCEALED, BUT WHEN REMEMBERED, THEY ARE THERE ALL RIGHT";-THEN, THE ANSWER IS THAT -IT CANNOT BE SO; AS, IF IT WERE SO, THEN THERE WOULD
BE A CLEAR IDEA OF THEM.-(2727)
COMMENTARY.
If the same Letters that had been heard before are lying with their appearance concealed, and are subsequently apprehended by the cumulative cognition, then like their own cognition, the cumulative cognition also should apprehend them quite distinctly; as the form is exterior to the cognition and it is of one and the same, form.-Further, if they have their
