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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXV.
thing is existent, it is not apprehended if it happens to be remote, or very small, or hidden; so that non-existence is not invariably concomitant with non-apprehension; hence it is that effort is made for proving that there is no sublating Cognition ".
If that is so, then please give up the idea of any such rostriction as that *tho investigator should have only three Cognitions '; because, as in the case of the first Cognition, so in all other Cognitions, the presence of sublation would be suspected; until the Cognition of the fruit (result) of the Cognition has appeared, -how can the suspicion of sublation be prevented, in view of which, there could be the restriction of the number of Cognitions to three only ? Unless there is proof for it, mere proolamation cannot bring about the cessation of suspicion in the minds of intelligent men. Because the whole investigation regarding Cognitions proceeds on the basis of real things; and what has been started is not mere Casuistry, whereby only a few Cognitions are examined.
If the validity of Cognitions rested upon the limitation of the investigation to three Cognitions only,then in the case of men who have suffered from the jaundiced eye throughout their life, as the conch-shell is always cognised as yellow-that Cognition would be quite valid.-(3010-3017)
The following question might be raised :-If the Cognition is invalid, how is it that the sublation of it does not appear after the investigation of the three Cognitions ?-The answer may be that, because it does not appear, therefore it is concluded that it does not exist.-The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (3018).
IT IS JUST POSSIBLE THAT THE SUBLATING COGNITION DOES NOT APPEAR BECAUSE THE CAUSE OF THE REMOVAL OF THE DEFECT IS NOT AVAILABLE, OR BECAUSE OF SOME OTHER REASON; HENCE THE SUSPICION REGARDING THE POSSIBILITY OF ITS BEING THERE DOES NOT
CEASE.—(3018)
COMMENTARY.
Cause of the romoval of the defect such as the dropping of the juice of the Drona flower into the eyes (which cures the jaundice);-when no such remedy is available, tho Cognition sublating the Cognition of yellowness in the conch-shell doos not appear.
Or because of some other reason';-for instance, when looking at the mass of mirago and mistaking it for water, if ono does not move up to it, the corrective Cognition envisaging the sandy desert as distinguished from water does not appear.(3018)
