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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXIV
TEXT (2747).
AS REGARDS INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION, ETC. THESE ARE NOT ADMITTED TO BE PRODUCTIVE (CAUSE OF THE EFFECT IN THE SHAPE OF THE COGNITION FOLLOWING FROM EFFORT BECAUSE
THESE ARE ALL PURELY ILLUSORY':-(2747)
COMMENTARY.
* Cognition following from effort' is the effect, of which the producer or cause,-is said to be 'Intentional Destruction', etc.; but these are not admitted to be such cause. Such is the construction of the sentence.
If it is in accordance with the view of the Sautrântikas that the Inconclusiveness of our Reason is urged by the Mimāmsaka,—then such 'Inconclusiveness cannot be admitted ; because, according to those same philosophers, the 'Intentional Destruction', etc. have a purely illusory'existence; and what is illusory cannot be productive of any effect; for, if it were, then it would lose that illusory character; because what is capable of effective action must be real, and everything other than this must be illusory : such are the characteristics of reality and illusoriness (unreality).-(2747)
If the Inconclusiveness' urged is from the standpoint of the Vaibhäşikas, --even so, these people do not regard · Pratisankhya nirodha' and the rest as of the nature of Destruction', as you have represented them to be. This is what is pointed out in the following :
TEXTS (2748-2749).
THE TWO ' nirodhas' ARE NOT REGARDED AS BEING OF THE NATURE OF
DESTRUCTION '; BECAUSE Pratisarkhyā-národha' IS REGARDED AS "DISSOCIATION FROM IMPURITIES BROUGHT ABOUT BY WISDOM ONE AFTER THE OTHER'; WHILE Apratisankhya. nirodha' IS THAT WHICH SERVES AS AN ABSOLUTE
BAR TO THE APPEARANCE OF THE IMPURITIES. • THUS PEOPLE, NOT KNOWING THE TRUE
DOCTRINES, AND DEPENDING UPON THE WRONG NOTIONS OF THINGS, OONTINUE
TO WOBBLE.—(2748-2749)
COMMENTARY.
The two wirodhas'-i.e. Pratisankhya-nirodha and Apratisarkhyāniroha.
Question "In what form then are they regarded ?"
