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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXV.
TEXT (3107). FOR THESE REASONS 'SELF-SUFFICIENT VALIDITY' IS NOT POSSIBLE IN THE VEDA ALSO; CONSEQUENTLY PLEASE ACCEPT THE VIEW THAT THE VEDA HAS BEEN COMPOSED AND EXPOUNDED BY PERSONS WHO ARE DETINITELY RECOGNISED AS YREE FROM DETECTS.-(310
COMMENTARY. * Kytākhyāta'-composed and expounded. Expounded - Explained.* By persons free from defects--the Veda has been composed and expounded',The compound thus is the Instrumental Tatpurusa' Nishchita' - * definitely known qualifies the said character of being composed and expounded by persons free from defects This view, please accept,-if you wish to establish the validity (reliability) of the Veda.
What is meant is that if this view is accepted, then the validity would be extraneous; if this view is not accepted, then there can be no validity at all.-(3107)
The following Texts set forth Kumärila's answer to the argument that * the view should be accepted that the Veda is the work of a Person recognised as free from defects
TEXTS (3108-3113). "As THERE GO ON APPEARING ON THE SCENE EXPOUNDERS OF THE VEDA
WHO ARE BESET WITH LOVE, HATRED, ETO, PEOPLE BECOME MORE AND MORE CAREFUL IN THE PRESERVING OF THE VEDIC TEXT. To THIS END, THEY GO ON INVESTIGATING ALL SUCH MINUTE DETAILS A8-(a) WHICH SCHOLAR HAS A WEAK MEMORY 1-() WHO WAS THE EARLIER SCHOLAR ?-(C) WHO WOULD COMMIT MISTAKES REGARDING ACCENTS ?-(d) WHO WOULD BE BREAKING UP WORDS IN THE WRONG PLACES - WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY ENTHUSIASTIC SCRUTINISERS BUSY WITH THE GUARDING OF THE VARIOUS POINTS OF DANGER, WHY CANNOT THE SERIOUS READER STUDY THE VEDA FREE FROM FLAWS ? -IF VEDIC SCHOLARS, THOUGH THEMSELVES PURE AND HONEST, WERE INDIFFERENT TOWARDS THE PURITY OF THE VEDA, THEY MIGHT BE UNABLE TO NOTICE THE VEDIO TEXT MUTILATED AND IN THIS WAY IN COURSE OF TIME, THE VEDA, DISREGARDED AND MUTILATED, WOULD BECOME SOMETHING QUITE DIFFERENT, A MERE SEMBLANCE OF THE VEDA.-UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, IF THE VEDA IS CONSTANTLY AND CAREFULLY GUARDED BY PERSONS WHO KEEP A CHEOK UPON PERSONS BESET WITH LOVE AND HATE BENT UPON MUTILATING THE VEDA, THEN THE VEDA WILL NEVER LOSE ITS REAL FORM":-(3108-3113)
COMMENTARY. (a) The memory, etc, of which scholars are weak (6who has learnt the Veda from whom -(e) who is likely to commit mistakes in the Accent,
