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EXAMINATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF SELF-SUFFICIENT VALIDITY'. 1365
UNDENIED.-INASMUCH AS THIS GENERAL LAW IS THE CREATION OF MERE WHIM, IT CAN BE ASSERTED QUITE CLEARLY IN REGARD TO INVALIDITY, JUST AS WELL AS IN REGARD TO VALIDITY. --BECAUSE IT IS IN THE NATURE OF APPREHENSION THAT COGNITION IS REGARDED As Invalid, --AND IT IS DISCARDED ONLY BY THE KNOWLEDGE THAT IT IS RIGHT, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REALITY OF THINGS, AND BY THE COGNITION OF THE EXCELLENCE OF ITS SOURCES ;-AND THE INVALIDITY IS NOT SET ASIDE BY THE EXCELLENCES, AS THESE HAVE NOT BEEN COGNISED ; HENCE BEING NOT-DENIED, THE INVALIDITY REMAINS ESTABLISHED AS BEING INHERENT IN THE COGNITION. (3066-3070)
COMMENTARY. Adah'-This. Question - "What is it that can be asserted ?" Answer It is this :- Hence it is the absence, etc. etc.
Mänavat'--the vati'-affix is added after the Locative, the meaning being- as in regard to validity'.
*Tadapi'-Invalidity. The rest is easily understood.—(3066-3070)
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It has been argued under Text 2895, that-"In the case of words emanating from personalities, there is always room for doubt, whether there are defects or not; in the case of the Veda, however, there being no author, there can be absolutely no suspicion, for us, regarding the presence of defects".
The answer to this is as follows:- .
TEXT (3071).
IN THE CASE OF WORDS EMANATING FROM PERSONALITIES, THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR DOUBT WHETHER THERE ARE DEFECTS OR NOT; AND AS IT HAS BEEN PROVED THAT THERE MUST BE AN AUTHOR OF THE VEDA, IT IS NOT TRUE THAT WE CAN HAVE NO SUSPICION REGARDING THE PRESENCE OF DEFECTS
IN IT, -(3071)
COMMENTARY.
Under the Chapter dealing with the Revealed Word', it has been proved that there must have been an author of the Veda; hence the statement because there is no author' cannot be admitted. Hence it is not truo that, for us, intelligent people, there is no suspicion regarding the presence of defects in the Veda; in fact, the suspicion is actually there.-(3071)
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