Verse 2.26

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.26:

क्रमोल्लेखानुषङ्गेण तस्यां यद् बीजमाहितम् ।
तत्त्वनानात्वयोस्तस्य निरुक्तिर्नावतिष्ठते ॥ २६ ॥

kramollekhānuṣaṅgeṇa tasyāṃ yad bījamāhitam |
tattvanānātvayostasya niruktirnāvatiṣṭhate || 26 ||

26. It is not possible to explain as identical with the intellect or as different from it the seed which is sown in it by the display of sequence (in the cognition).

Commentary

According to Puṇyarāja, the next verse is meant to refute the following view:—Even though cognition is one and indivisible, it appears to have parts and sequence because of the sequence of the objects which figure in it. The cognition appears to have the sequence of the objects. This is due to an immemorial and eternal predisposition of cognitions. This appearance of sequence in the cognition is not contradicted. It is of the nature of cognition itself. A cognition displaying sequence leaves a similar impression (Saṃskāra) so that the next cognition also displays sequence. That is why in our cognition of short, long and protracted vowels or of words and sentences, temporal distinctions figure though these are eternal and have, therefore, no temporal distinctions.

[Read verse 26 above]

[The impression of sequence which is supposed to be left by the cognition in the intellect is either identical with it or different from it. If it is different from it, it cannot do any service to it. It cannot bring about temporal distinction in short, long etc. If it is identical with it, then intellect or cognition would remain one and indivisible and there would be no sequence at all. Therefore, it is futile to try to explain sequence in cognition through the impressions of the sequence of objects which figure in the cognition.]

Indivisibility is now set forth in a different manner.