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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXIV.
that these Letters are eternal has been established by Sense-perception and other Means of Cognition ".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (2734).
IT HAVING BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT EXPRESSIVENESS BELONGS TO NONETERNAL LETTERS, THE 'RECOGNITION' AND 'INFERENCE', PUT FORWARD IN PROOF OY eternality, BECOME
ANNULLED.-(2734)
COMMENTARY. Pratyabhijñanumănē',-ie. Recognition and Inference.
In some places, the reading is 'pratyabhijnanumānam '; in which case the compound is to be treated as 'Samahara-Dvandva'; or as a Karmadharaya, involving the deletion of the term 'sahita' (the meaning being 'Recognition along with Inference ').-(2734)
The following Text points out that the argument put forward by the other party involves 'self-contradiction:
TEXTS (2735-2736).
THE OBJECTION IN QUESTION HAS BEEN URGED BY THE OTHER PARTY, THROUGI IGNORANCE THAT HIS DOING SO INVOLVES SELF-CONTRADICTIONS ON HIS PART; BECAUSE THERE ARE ALL THESE (SELFCONTRADICTIONS), IF YOU HOLD TO THE VIEW OF THE ETERNALITY (OT LETTERS AND WORDs).--IT HAS BEEN ALREADY EXPLAINED THAT IT WORDS ARE ETERNAL, THEY CANNOT BE EXPRESSIVE ; BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT HAVE ANY CONNECTION WITH THE ORDER OF SEQUENCE (AMONG THE COMPONENT LETTERS) AND SO FORTR; ALSO BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT PERCEIVED AT ALL TIMES.
(2735-2736)
COMMENTARY * All these-self-contradictions.
With the order of sequence' - and so forth is meant to include the fact of their hearing' and 'remembrance' being successive. All this is so, because on account of the eternality (of words) the particular order of sequence cannot be due to time; and on account of their all-pervasiveness, it cannot be due to place ; nor can it be due to manifestation ; because the idea
