Sarvadarshanasangraha 12.5

12.5

this is not satisfactory, because there is a dissimilarity between the example and the case in point. Only with husked rice produced through threshing, when preparing the dough, sacrificial cake, and so forth, do the New- and Full-Moon sacrifices produce the ultimate unseen potency by way of the intermediate unseen potency, and not otherwise. Therefore, the unseen potency is the cause for the restriction of threshing. In the present case, since the execution of the rite is accomplished through the comprehension of meaning arising either from reading a written text or arising from study, there is no cause whatever for restricting study. Therefore, the treatise of inquiry, which is a cause for the comprehension of meaning, does not possess the status of being enjoined by an injunction.