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IPPV — V2-Q ARGUMENT MAP (the close of the saptamo vimarśa: the piśāca and the omniscient, kārikās 11–13)

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Question. The saptamo vimarśa closes with the question of the *omniscient* (sarvajña) — the supreme knower who is the support of all the powers. The Buddhist objector presses: if the piśāca (the goblin) is not perceived even by the omniscient, how can he deny it? The analysis turns on whether the omniscient's non-perception of the piśāca establishes its non-being, and how the ordinary knower (arvāgdarśana) differs. This grounds the omniscient as the one who knows all — the support of the powers.
Issue. **The question:** The saptamo vimarśa closes with the question of the *omniscient* (sarvajña) — the supreme knower who is the support of all the powers. The Buddhist objector presses: if the piśāca (the goblin) is not perceived even by the omniscient, how can he deny it? The analysis turns on whether the omniscient's non-perception of the piśāca establishes its non-being, and how the ordinary knower (arvāgdarśana) differs. This grounds the omniscient as the one who knows all — the support of the powers.

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The piśāca and the āloka-atoms
Even if the piśāca is not seen by us, the form-and-the-rest atoms are there — not seen by us, but seen by the omniscient. The atoms have no un-precedented variety. The "na tathā" — the obstructing ones also, not utterly. The "dūrataram" — the shadow, made by the darkness, with the interval, the distinguished, the same-class-devoid interval; the middle-darkness or the middle-void. In their own place, they withdraw; by the unable-moment-production-order, they are withdrawn. Hence the piśāca-atoms are, for the omniscient, equal to the darkness-and-the-rest-other-being-atoms. But if the piśāca is absent, then where the piśāca had occupied the interval, the āloka-atoms alone, being seen, are the object of the piśāca's-absence-dealing for the omniscient. The objection: "seeing the other objects,
Unresolved. 1. The 1.7.10 ("svajñāna-maghaṭātmatā") and the hetubindu references — cited; the applications preserved. 2. The "arvāk" (the limited-seeing) vs. the sarvajña distinction — the crux; kept close.
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