97. SAIVA BASIS OF ABHINAVA'S ÆSTHETICS 111

SAIVA BASIS OF ABHINAVA'S ÆSTHETICS 111

order. We accept them as standards of measure. There are other things which happen without any regularity. The latter we measure in terms of the former. The judgement consequently reached is "A is six years old". Taking a concrete instance to make the point clear, we would put the proposition as follows :- X sees the sun rising at a particular spot and setting at another. This happens with absolute regularity. He sees other events which lack this regularity. For instance, he sees a student going to college. It means his seeing the student as associated with different places. This lacks regularity. But he wants to get a correct idea of the irregular succession, involved in going. He, therefore, puts it before his mind's eye by the side of the regular succession, involved in the movement of the sun, measures it in terms of the latter and says: "He takes two hours to reach college." Thus we find that the concept of time is based upon a construct, which is unity in multiplicity; the latter inasmuch as it is made up of the successive manifestations of the sun, as associated with different spots, and those of X as appearing at different points of space; and the former because the whole forms one object of apprehension. Thus we find that in the case of time, only multiplicity exists outside but the unity exists only within. We talk of time in a number of ways, We talk of hours. days and weeks etc .. We also talk of quickness and slowness, priority and posteriority, and present, past and future. These sub -- concepts are also, like the general concept of time, based on a mental construct of the same nature. For instance, when a person says: "X studies for 2 hours" he is calculating the activity of X in terms of that of the sun. The only thing to be remembered in this connection og bolimil