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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXVI.
TEXTS (3414-3415).
THEN AGAIN, THE GRAINS THAT ORIGINALLY GREW OUT OY THE SEEDS OP TRE SAME KIND, TURN OUT GRADUALLY TO BE VASTLY SUPERIOR, THROUGH THE SUPERIOR TREATMENT THAT THEY RECEIVE. AND AS IN THE CASE OF THE Vrihi AND OTHER GRAINS, SO IN THE CASE OF MERCY, WISDOM AND OTHER QUALITIES ALSO, IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE THAT WHEN THESE LATTER, ENDOWED WITH THE SAID CHARACTER, REACH THEIR HIGHER STAGES, THERE RESULTS
omniscience.-(3414-3415)
COMMENTARY
Or, the grains that originally grew out of the same kind of seeds are found, on undergoing special treatment, to become vastly superior; and just as this happens in the case of grains, so it does in the case of the qualities of Morey, Wisdom, etc. also. So this is a Reason based on the nature of things.
As before, here also the Reason is not 'Inconclusive' or 'Inadmissible'. 'Mati-wisdom.
Endowed with the said character-i.e. originally growing out of the same kind of cause-(3414-3415)
TEXTS (3416-3418).
IN THINGS THAT ARE LIABLE TO DETERIORATION IN THE PRESENCE OF
THEIR OPPOSITES,—THERE COMES ABOUT AN UTTER DETERIORATION, -AS IS YOUND IN THE CASE OF THE IMPURITIES IN GOLD-AYELICTIONS, WRONG NOTIONS OF COGNISABLE THINGS AND SO FORTE, ARE ALL ENDOWED WITH THE SAID CHARACTER (OY DETERIORATING IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR OPPOSITES): HENCE ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THESE, COGNITIONS BECOME FREE FROM IMPURITIES. IF IT IS POSSIBLE FOR THESE, ENDOWED AS THEY ARE WITH THE SAID CHARACTER, TO HAVE IMPURITIES, THEN IT IS EQUALLY POSSIBLE FOR THEIR OPPOSITE TO UPROOT THAT IMPURITY (3416-3418)
COMMENTARY.
Or, things that have been found to deteriorate in the presence of their opposites are liable to utter deterioration when their opposite rises to its
