Tattva Sangraha Vol 2

SR No.: 007609
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamlashila, Ganganatha Jha
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1939
Total Pages: 887
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 84 MB

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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XXIV.
TEXTS (2154-2155).
"THE DISTINCTION IN THE LETTER ITSELF INTO short, ETC. WOULD BE CONTRARY TO THE DOCTRINE OF ETERNALITY (OF WORDS) ; FOR, HOW CAN THE LETTER, WHICH IS EVER PRESENT, BE SAID TO BE measured by duration ? CONSEQUENTLY, IT IS THE articula. tion OF THE LETTER THAT SHOULD BE REGARDED AS measured by duration, FOR ONE OR TWO MOMENTS ; THE LETTER ITSELF CANNOT BE MEASURED BY DURATION."-[Shlokavārtika-Sphota, 50-51].
—(2154-2155)
COMMENTARY. * Short, long, clc.' The etcetera' includes the Lory, the ultra-lony, the High Pitch, the Low Pitch, the Middling Pitch, and the Salja' and other inusical notes.
Would be contrary, olc. etc. That is, because the Eternality of the Lottur has been established by Recognition.--(2154-2155)
In the following text, the Opposito viow is put forward-thut the suid manifostation cannot be admitted
TEXTS (2156-2157).
THE MANIFESTATION OF WORD-SOUND BY ARTICULATION IS NOT POSSIBLE : THAT MANIFESTATION COULD BE DUE TO THE EMBELLISHMENT EITHER OF THE SOUND ITSELF, OR OF THE SENSE-ORGAN CONCERNED, OR OF BOTH. IF IT WERE THE SOUND THAT WAS EMBELLISHED, THEN IT WOULD BE COGNISED BY ALL AS SO EMBELLISHED; AND IT BEING IMPARTITE AND ALL-PERVADING, THERE COULD BE NO EMBELLISHMENT OF IT IN
ANY PARTS.—(2156-2157)
COMMENTARY.
If thero wore manifestation of the Word-Sound by the conjunctions and disjunctions of Air, it could bo through the embellishment of the Sound itself, or through the embellishment of the Sense-organ, or through the exnbellishmont of both of the Sound and also of the Sense-organ.-If there were ombellishment of tho Sound, then when embellished at one placerat Pāfaliputra for instance, it would become apprehended by peoplo in all places ; as it goes everywhere simultaneously.
It might be said that only a part of the Sound becomes embellished.
The answer to that is that it is impartite, -not made up of parts, being incorporeal; hence, even though it is all-pervading, it boing without parte, how could there be any embellishment in part ?-(2156-2157)