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Question: As to the twelve varieties bahu, alpa etc. belonging to arthāvagraha it has just been said that they ought to be treated as belonging to its vyāvahārika, not to its naiścayika type. Even then the question remains as to how we get three hundred thirty six sub-types of mati-jñāna. For it is the twentyeight forms of mati-jñāna each possibly belonging to twelve varieties that yield the number three hundred thirty six. But these twenty-eight forms also include the four vyañjanāvagrahas which inasmuch as they come earlier than even the naiscayika arthāvagraha are of an extremely indistinct nature. Thus the fortyeight sub-types (4 × 12 = 48) belonging to them will have to be excluded from the total three hundred thirty-six.
TATTVĀRTHA SUTRA
Answer: In the case of arthavagraha those twelve varieties can be clearly exhibited by positing the type vyavahārika. And so the above answer was given based on a rough consideration. But really speaking, even in the case of naiścayika arthāvagraha and of vyañjanavagraha preceding it the varieties in question will have to be assumed. And that on the basis of the principle of the identity of the cause and the effect. Thus naiścayika arthāvagraha is the cause of the vyāvahārika arthāvagraha while vyañjanāvagraha is the cause of the former-so that if the particular features bahu, alpa etc. are clearly reflected in vyāvahārika arthāvagraha then a similar reflection will have to be assumed also for naiścayika arthävagraha which is its immediate cause and for vyañjanavagraha which is its proximate cause, however difficult to be noticed because indistinct be this latter reflection. But whether distinct or otherwise inasmuch as a reflection like this is possible in the case of these the twelve varieties in question will have to be assumed also in their case. 18-19.
The nature of Śruta-jñāna or Verbal Cognition and Its Sub-types: Śruta-jñāna is invariably preceded by mati-jñāna. It is of two types, many types, twelve types. 20.
Mati-jñāna is the cause while śruta-jñāna is its effect, for it is from mati-jñāna that śruta-jñāna is produced. That is why it is said about mati-jñāna that it nourishes and supplements śruta
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