Shringaraprakasha 10.p1.9

10.p1.9

256–58: Expression of non-difference in certain instances when difference is comprehended due to differences in relata despite the multiplicity of substance. Statement that the connection with number is admissible only for an established entity, not for what is to be brought into being. Consideration of the predominance of action in finite verbs. 259–61: Admissibility of single-retention through the predominance of action. Description of the intention of others on this point. Well-reasoned refutation of the objection that action is something distinct from the meaning of the verbal root. 262–63: Detailed etymological definition of the word 'action'. Restatement of the view of those who assert that human activity is imperceptible because it is inferable from its effect, and the exposure of its fault. 264–65: Demonstration of the impossibility of action being inferable. Objection that the meaning of the verbal root is over and above human activity, and its rejection. 266: Demonstration of the impossibility of the result being an action. 267: The solution of those who maintain inferable action in 'calati', 'pacati', and so forth. 268: Demonstration that even the result must be expected as an instrument because it is to be accomplished by all the component parts of the action. 269: Justification of the usage 'pacati' and so forth by the superimposition of the collective upon the aggregates. 270–73: The imperceptibility to the senses of an aggregate. That the conceit of an imagined simultaneous grasping is grounded in perceptual error. The concurrence of the Mahābhāṣyakāra regarding the non-perceptibility of action. Detailed inquiry into the possibility of perceptibility and non-perceptibility of action. 274: Connection of action with grammatical tense, and the manner of determining tense. 275: Examples of the comprehension of particular tenses through particular actions. 276: Disclosure of divergent views regarding the nature of action. 277–79: Divisions of tense such as past; fourfold nature of grammatical tense into eternal, occasional, natural, and ultimate. The threefold subdivision of each of the fourfold divided grammatical tense, and its exposition. 280: Determination of the nature of the divisions of tense: practical, natural, associative, and miscellaneous. 281: Elaboration of grammatical tense as being of the nature of both action and its instrument. 282: The group of six designations, agent and so forth, grounded in the intermediate operations of a substance endowed with power.