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arises: "Through which sense-organs does vyañjanāvagraha take place and through which it does not ?" It is this question that has been answered in the present aphorism. No vyañjanavagraha takes place through the eye and manas, for these two cognize their appropriate object without coming in contact with it-that is, through a mere suitable co-presence with this object and through attentiveness. Certainly, who does not know that an eye grasps the tree, mountain etc. that are distant, far distant and that, similarly, a manas reflects over a thing that is far, far distant ? That is why the eye and manas are classified as aprāpyakärin or 'active-without-coming-in-contact' and the stream of cognition produced by them is treated as that characterized by the fast order of succession. On the other hand, four sense-organs-viz. the auditory, gustatory, olfactory, tactile-give rise to the stream of cognition that is characterized by the slow order of succession, for these four are präpyakarin or 'active-through-coming-incontact'-that is, they grasp their object only through coming in contact with it. Certainly, it is the experience of everybody that unless the word enters an ear, the sugar touches a tongue, the dust of flower enters a nose, the water touches a body there will be no hearing of this word, no tasting of this sugar, no smelling of this dust, no feeling of a cold or hot sensation in relation to this water.
Question: So how many sub-types does mati-jñāna have
in all ?
TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
Answer: Three hundred and thirty six.
Question: How ?
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Answer: The four forms arthāvagraha etc., each possibly produced by one of the six instruments-viz. the five sense-organs and manas, yield the number twenty-four (4 × 6 24). To them are to be added four vyañjanāvagrahas produced by the four sense-organs belonging to the class präpyakārin, thus the total number becomes twenty-eight (24 + 4 28). Each of these twenty eight can possibly have objects belonging to those twelve varieties bahu, alpa, bahuvidha, alpavidha, etc. and thus we get
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