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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXVI.
TEXTS (3165-3167).
" WHEN ONE HAS LEARNT GRAMMAR, HIS INTELLIGENCE GOES VERY PAR IN THE MATTER OF CORRECT AND INCORRECT FORMS OF WORDS ; BUT NOT IN THE MATTER OF THE DETERMINATION OF STARS, DATES, ECLIPSES AND SUCH SUBJECTS. SIMILARLY, THE ASTRONOMER, THOUGH SUPERIOR IN THE MATTER OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MOON, THE SUN, ECLIPSES AND SO FORTH, 18 INCAPABLE OF DETERMINING THE CORRECTNESS OF SUCH WORDS AS
bhavati' AND THE LIKE.-AGAIN A MAN, VERY SUPERIOR IN HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE VEDA, HISTORY AND SUCH SUBJECTS, 18 UNABLE TO VISUALISE SUOH MATTERS AS CREATION, DEITY, AND A pūrva."-(3165-3167)
COMMENTARY.
* Astronomer-one who knows the science of the stars.
Vēdētihasa, etc.'-The compound is to be expounded as meaning one who has the superiority relating to his knowledge of the Veda, etc.
* Apurua-stands for Dharma and Adharma (Merit and Demerit).(3165–3167)
Further, even when the superiority transcends the limitations of its subject, it does not reach its highest point; it is found to proceed only up to a certain point. This is pointed out in the following:
TEXT (3168). " THE MAN, WHO CAN JUMP INTO THE SKY TO TER HEIGHT OF 15 FEET, CAN NEVER JUMP TO THE HEIGHT OY EIGHT MILES,-HOWEVER
MUCH HE MAY PRACTISE JUMPING." (3168)
COMMENTARY.
For example, it may so happen that men who, by reason of the accu. mulation of fat, are unable to jump to the height of oven two feet, succeed in reducing their fat by means of exercise and become capable of jumping to the height of 15 feet; but even so, though they may carry on the exercise hundreds of times, they can never jump to the height of 8 miles in the sky. -(3168)
In the following Tect, the Mimämsaka sums up his position :
