Tattva Sangraha Vol 1

SR No.: 007608
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamlashila, Ganganatha Jha
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1937
Total Pages: 753
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 42 MB

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CHAPTER V. The Doctrine of SOUND (Word-Sound') being the Origin
of the World
COMENTARY. The upholders of Word-Sound as Brahman' Assert their view in the following words :
Free from such distinctions as prior and posterior',- unborn,imperishable-such is the Brahman consisting of 'Word-Sound': and from this Brahman there evolve the whole lot of Things,-Such as Colour and the like this fact is clearly recognised. This has been thrus declared— Without beginning and end, Brahman, of the essence of SOUND,- in the form of Letter-Sounds, evolves in the form of Things; whence proceeds the entire world. process. The term 'adi', beginning, here stands for production ;
nidhana', 'end', stands for destruction, that which is free from these two is without beginning and end ': in the form of the Letter-Sounds': as it is the Letters and the rest which are the means (of the expressing of Word. Sound) this indicates the evolution in the form of the word ', the 'name'; -the evolution in the form of the thing denoted' is indicated by the phrase
in the forın of things the term process stands for the cliverse things ;-the term 'Brahman' mentions the name."
What has been asserted in the verse just quoted ie reiterated in the following Text:
TEXT (128).
"THE WHOLE LOT OF THINGS IS RECOGNISED AS EVOLVED OUT OF THAT Brahman WHICH IS OF THE ESSENCE OF Word-SOUND, THE HIGHEST, —
UNAFFECTED BY DESTRUCTION AND ORIGINATION.” -(128)
COMAIENTARY.
Destruction and Origination have been mentioned only by way of illustration; what should be understood to be meant is that it is entirely iree from all such distinctions as priority and posteriority of Place; this includes freedom from distinctions of priority' and posteriority of Time also.
of the essence of Word-Sound' ;-of the nature of Word-Sound; it is this fact of Word-Sound forming its essence that makes it spoken of as of the essence of Word-Sound'; what is meant is that Word-Sound is its inseparable form.
Highest,-in the form of the syllable 'om'; tliis syllable on is the essence of all words and names and also of all things, and it constitutes