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well versed in them, they were the competent persons to teach people the rules of religion and morality.
"If it be urged that proofs of the possibility of Omniscience may be wanting now but that in the past or the future people might or may be convinced about the existence of an Omniscient Being,the reply of the Mimānsakas is that it is impossible The supposed people of the past or of the future must be persons with limitations in knowledge and sensuous perception like us, so that if Omniscience is impossible to us, how can it be possible to them? The Mimānsakas further argue that an Omniscient Deing cannot know all things. If you say that it is through Pratyaksha or direct perception that he knɔws all things, he must be held to be unaware of such minute things as Merit etc There would be difficulty again, if he be supposed to be knowing things through Anumāna. If Anumăna could make any one Omniscient, we are Omniscient which we are really not. Then again, the knowledge obtained through Anumana or Āgama is, after all, vague ; what is the use of attributing such knowledge to the Omniscient Being? Further,---What is Omniscience? If Omniscience means knowledge of
