Argument
IPVV — V2-O ARGUMENT MAP (the saptamo vimarśa: the one-support of the powers, kārikās 1–?)
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Question. The previous vimarśa (the ṣaṣṭha) established the powers — knowledge, memory, removal (jñāna, smaraṇa, apohana). But a power needs a *support* (āśraya); and the support of all the powers is the maheśvara — not an inert support (like the fire's relation to its powers of burning, cooking, sweating), but the free Lord, whose very essence is the joining, separating, resting, concealing, and manifesting freedom. Kārikā 1: this pratibhā (the flashing), seasoned with the order of the various word-objects — the order-less, infinite-consciousness-form knower — he is the great Lord. The 14-verse plan: one for the support's own form, two for the anvaya-vyatireka, one for the vyavahāra, one for the smaraṇa, eight for the whole dealing, one for the nigamana.
Issue. **The question:** The previous vimarśa (the ṣaṣṭha) established the powers — knowledge, memory, removal
(jñāna, smaraṇa, apohana). But a power needs a *support* (āśraya); and the support of all the powers is
the maheśvara — not an inert support (like the fire's relation to its powers of burning, cooking,
sweating), but the free Lord, whose very essence is the joining, separating, resting, concealing, and
manifesting freedom. Kārikā 1: this pratibhā (the flashing), seasoned with the order of the various
word-objects — the order-less, infinite-consciousness-form knower — he is the great Lord. The 14-verse
plan: one for the support's own form, two for the anvaya-vyatireka, one for the vyavahāra, one for the
smaraṇa, eight for the whole dealing, one for the nigamana.
Premises
The plan
The three powers (knowledge, memory, removal) were established in the previous vimarśas. The
power-holder's own form, touched there, is to establish that these are powers by the power-holder's
freedom. Now: the support of the powers exists; and it is the maheśvara-form, by the freedom of the
joining-separating-resting-concealing-manifesting; not the inert fire-like (the fire's burning-cooking-
sweating-power-support). The "na cedantaḥkṛtā" (1.3.7) hinted this; now it is to be determined. First,
that the support alone exists — for the determination, the 14 verses. One for the support's own form
(k1); then two, by the anvaya-vyatireka (in the one support the dealing is fit, in the non-[support]
not); one for the vyavahāra (the cognition-aggregation, of the bhāvarūpatā-rest, the
kāryakāraṇabh
Kārikā 1
> This pratibhā (the flashing), seasoned with the order of the various word-objects — the order-less,
> infinite-consciousness-form knower, he is the great Lord.
The pratibhā — the flash that runs through the ordered word-objects — is not itself ordered; its
support, the order-less, infinite-consciousness-form knower, is the maheśvara. The support is
established first by its own form.
Unresolved. 1. The "na cedantaḥkṛtā" (1.3.7) reference — the hint of the support; cited.
2. The Vaiśeṣika refutation (1.2.6) — the prior denial of the support; referenced.
Tension: PUSHING-IPVV-narrated
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