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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XXIV.
TEXT (2246).
"THE UTTERANCE OF THE WORD, THE SETTING UP OF ITS CONNECTION AND ITS USE, ALL THIS PROCESS IS, BY ITS VERY NATURE, SUCCESSIVE ; HOW COULD ANY ONE PERFORM ALL THIS SIMULTANEOUSLY ?"-[Shlokavdrtika-ETERNALITY OF WORDS,
258-259).—(2246)
COMMENTARY
(1) Utterance of the Word, (2) the setting up of its connection, (3) actual usage, all these three acts are, by their very nature, such as can be done only one after the other; and it is absolutely impossible to do them all at the same time. And when there is no simultaneity, there can be no setting up of the Connection. If succession were waited for, that would mean that the Word continues to exist for some time (other than the one at which it is produced).—(2246)
The Mimämaaka reaffirms his view in the following:
TEXTS (2247-2248).
"FOR THOSE PERSONS WHO LIVE AT DIFFERENT TIMES AND PLACES, ETC. - PRIOR TO THE HEARING OF OTHER WORDS—THERE CANNOT BE EYEN ONE SUCH WORD AS HAD ITS OONNECTION SET UP,-EVEN IF THE IDEA BE THAT THE CONNECTION IS ' asserted' (NOT SET UP OR CREATED), THE REFUTATION OF THAT ALSO WOULD BE THE SAME ; AS NO SUCH ASSERTION' IS POSSIBLE IN REGARD TO WHAT HAS PERISHED, OR WHAT IS NON-EXISTENT, OR WHAT EXISTS ONLY AT THE PRESENT
MOMENT”-ShlokavārtikaETERNALITY OF WORDS, 260-261].—(2247-2248))
COMMENTARY.
The term 'adi', etcetera', includes the states of childhood, youth and so forth.
