Gandharavada

SR No.: 006739
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Esther A Solomon
Publisher: Gujarat Vidyasabha
Publication Year: 1966
Total Pages: 400
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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jar necessarily exists; as 'Tree' gives us knowledge of 'mango' and ‘non-mango', but ‘mango' means that it is necessarily a tree, (not a non-tree).
(1725) What is it that you regard as 'produced', when what is produced, not produced or both has been proved to be non-produced ? If even (then) (it is argued that) the produced is not produced, why is this not contemplated with respect to 'sky-flower'?
(1726) If it is utterly non-produced, how is it that it is apprehended after its birth or is not apprehended before its birth and is, again, not apprehended when it perishes after some time.
(1727) As the statement of ‘Void' even though non-produced in all respects is (somehow accepted as) produced, so are all things (regarded as produced). If even what is produced is (regarded as) non-produced, by what will the void be illuminated (propounded)?
(1728) The effect - produced, non-produced, producednon-produced, being produced - is here produced accoding to what is intended to be conveyed, and in certain cases is not at all produced.
(1729) As possessed of colour, the jar is the produced that is produced; from the point of view of figure, it as nonproduced is produced; from the point of view of both (i. e. colour and figure) it as produced non-produced is produced, and for the moment it as being produced is produced.
(1730) The jar formerly made can in no way be produced as a jar, or as of alien modes, or in both ways (as jar and as alien modes), and even as being produced it can in no way be produced as cloth.
(1731) Hence the eternal ether, etc. cannot be produced in any of these ways (produced, non-produced, both, being produced), O gentle one. This should be understood from the