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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXV.
texts; hence so far as this is concorned, it has to bu achnitted that it has been composed and expounded by a person or persons recognised as free from defects.-(3115)
Even as regards the verbal text, there can be no certainty regarding its being the same at all times and places, merely by seeing no change in except to an omniscient person. This is pointed out in the following:
TEXTS (3116-3117).
THAT THE VERBAL TEXT HAS REMAINED THE SAME CAN BE ASCERTAINED ONLY BY A PERSON TO WHOM ALL MEN, AND ALL TIMES AND PLACES ARE VISIBLE LIKE THE FRUIT IN THE HAND; IF IT WERE NOT SO, THEN, WHY SHOULD THERE HAVE BEEN A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION DUE TO THE DIVERGENCE OF TIME, PLACE,
PERSONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES ?-(3116-3117)
COMMENTARY.
The argument in support of the preceding assertion is stated in the words - If it were not so, etc. etc. If the verbul text had remained the samo, then there could be no difference of opinion-doubt-among persons, rogard. ing it, by reason of the divergence of place, time, etc.-(3116-3117)
It has been assertod (by Kumärila) under Texts 2275 and 3114 that "the world has never been known to be unlike what it is now and that no Universal Dissolution can be admitted ”.
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (3118).
YOU HAVE NO PROOT FOR THE NOTION THAT THE WORLD HAS ALWAYS BEEN AS IT IS NOW. THE EXISTENCE OF THE Samtarta' (DISSOLUTION) ALSO CANNOT BE DENIED SIMPLY
BECAUSE IT IS NOT SEEN.-(3118)
COMMENTARY.
There is no evidence in support of the idea that the World has always been as it is now.
The Buddhists spook of the 'Samvarta' as the dissolution of all things; -the Smrti-writers also have declared that This world was a mass of darkness, unknown and undiscernible, unthinkablo, unknowablo, as if asleep all round' (Manu, Chapter I); where we have the mention of two kinds of
Samvarta, Dissolution'; and there is no proof to the effect that there is no such Dissolution, on the strength of which the world could always remain as it is now.-Merely because a certain thing is not seen, it does not follow
