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EXAMINATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF SELF-SUFFICIENT VALIDITY'. 1327
TEXT (2956).
SUBSEQUENTLY TO THEIR BIRTH, THE JAR, ETC. DO NOT DEPEND UPON THE POTTER AND OTHER SUCH CAUSES; BUT THEY DO DEPEND UPON THEIR OWN CONSTITUENT CAUSES AND OTHER THINGS ; SO THAT OF THE JAR ITSELF, THERE CAN BE
NO ACTION.---(2956)
COMMENTARY.
* Their own constituent causes,*--in the shape of the preceding homogeneons moments'.-'Other things' include the man holding it.
What is meant is as follows:- What are seen subsequently are entirely different Jar-moments' appearing through their own constituent cause, etc.; and no single Jar is known to exist after the moment of its birth; for the simple reason that all things are momentary--(2956)
It has been argued by the Mimāmsaka, under Text 2854, that-"* Just as the first Cognition needs corroboration of the second Cognition, so would the latter need another, and so on and on there would be an Infinite Regress."
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (2957).
INNAT
IF VALIDITY IS DEPENDENT (UPON SOMETHING ELSE), THERE CAN BE NO INFINITE REGRESS. HENCE THERE CAN BE CERTAINTY REGARDING SELF-VALIDITY ONLY WHEN THERE IS COGNITION
OF EYFECTIVE ACTION. (2957)
COMMENTARY.
The other party argues as follows:
TEXT (2958).
" WHAT PECULIAR FEATURE IS THERE IN THE SECOND COGNITION, DIFFERENT FROM THOSE OF THE PREVIOUS COGNITION, ON ACCOUNT OP WHICH IT IS NOT REGARDED TO BE ENTIRELY LIKE
THE PREVIOUS COGNITION"-(2958)
COMMENTARY.
The answer to this (from the Buddhist) is as follows:
