Foundations of language., Supplementary series ;, 11.
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I. Ratnak?rti. His Philosophical Congeners and Adversaries --; II. Notation --; III. Vy?pti --; Transliterated Text --; English Translation --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; Index of Sanskrit Technical Terms.
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lJa). 4 As Ratnakirti's predecessors have put it: There is neither an 'I' nor a 'he' nor a 'you' nor even an 'it'; neither the thing, nor the not-thing; neither a law nor a system; neither the terms nor the relations. But there are only the cognitive events of colourless sensations which have forms but no names. They are caught for a moment in a stream and then rush to naught. Even the stream is a fiction. That sensum of the moment, the purest particular, that advaya, the indivisible unit of cognition, that is the sole reality, the rest are all fictions, stirred up by time-honoured 5 convention of language which is itself a grand fiction.