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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXVI.
yet through Presumption it becomes established that the Omniscient Person does exist.
If any one holds this view, then he understands things wrongly. This is what is meant.-(3217-3218)
The following Texts show that the argument put forward just now may be regarded as Inference ; it need not be taken as Presumption :
TEXTS (3219-3221). **(B) OR, THIS ARGUMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE OMNISCIENT PERSON MAY BE STATED IN THE FORM OF THE FOLLOWING INTERENCE OF THE Sämänyatodręta KIND (DIFFERENCE FROM THE UNIVERSAL TO THE PARTICULAR): IN EVERY OTHER CASE TEACHING IS FOUND TO BE PRECEDED BY THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE THING TAUGHT, AND WHEREVER THERE IS TEACHING, IT IS ALWAYS PRECEDED BY THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJECT TAUGHT; AS IN THE CASE OF THE POTENCIES OF Haritaks AND SUCH THINGS ; -THE TEACHING OF Dharma and Adharma HAS BEEN GIVEN BY BUDDHA-HENCE IT IS INFERRED THAT THE TEACHING MUST HAVE BEEN PRECEDED BY A KNOWLEDGE OF THOSE
MATTERS."-3219-3221)
COMMENTARY. The special mention of the Samanyatodrata' Inference (from the Universal Premiss) implies the impossibility of the Particular Premiss; as a matter of fact, it is only when the relation between the particular Probans and the particular Subject has been perceived, that, at a later time, the same Probans is made to yield an Inference that sets aside all doubts on the point; and it is this Inference that is called Vishēşatodrata (based on a particular Premiss). As a matter of fact, no relationship has been perceived between the Omniscient Person and the Teaching of Dharma, etc. ; hence this can be an instance of Inference from a Universal Premiss only. For instance, it has been found as a universal truth that in any one chain', the Teaching is always preceded by knowledge ; hence just as in the case of Dēvadatta, it having been found that his change of place is preceded by movement, so in the case of the sun, the change of place leads to the inference of its movement in the same manner, from the fact that Buddha imparted teachings relating to Dharma, it is inferred that He possessed the knowledge of Dharma.
The argument may be formulated as follows -Every Teaching is preceded by the Toucher's knowledge of what is taught :-o.g. the teachings relating to the potencies of the Haritaki ;-Buddha's teaching of Dharma is Teaching; hence this is a Reason based upon the nature of things.(3219-3221)
The Mimamsaka's answer to the above is as follows:
