Tattvartha Sutra

SR No.: 006796
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 10 MB

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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
be acquired only when an earlier type has already been acquired, but it is not the case that an earlier type can be acquired only when a later type has already been acquired.
The Names of the Cognitive Organs :
The tactile cognitive organ—skin, the gustatory cognitive organ-tongue, the olfactory cognitive organ-nose, the visual cognitive organ-eye, the auditory cognitive organ—ear,-each of these five is of four types in the form of labdhi, nirvrtti, upakaraṇa and upayoga. That is to say, it is the collective totality of these four types that constitutes a cognitive organ-e.g. the tactile-taken in its entirety. Thus precisely to the extent this collective totality is deficient the corresponding cognitive organ too is deficient.
Question : But upayoga is a specific form of cognition that is something resulting from a cognitive organ; how then is it itself called a cognitive organ?
Answer : Though upayoga is in fact something resulting from the collective totality of labdhi, nirvetti and upakaraņa it has been called a cognitive organ in a figurative sense that is, as a result of attributing to an effect a feature which in fact belongs to its cause! 20.
The Respective Cognizables or Objects of the Cognitive Organs :
Touch, taste, smell, colour and sound-these five are the respective cognizables or objects in the case of the abovementioned five cognitive organs. 21.
In the case of anindriya or manas the corresponding object is śruta. 22.
Not all the objects of the world are of the same nature. For some of them are tangible, some intangible. Those possessed of colour, smell, taste, touch etc. are tangible and it is tangible
1. For a special consideration of all this see, Hindi Chauthā Karmagrantha, p. 36, the appendix pertaining to the term indriya'.