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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THE DOCTRINE OF WORD-SOUND
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hould appear simultimeously, as being the effects of equally perfect cause of unobstructed potency. In fact, the appearance of effects is delayed only when there is the imperfection in the Causu; if the Cause is perfect, therefore, for what would the effect wait, and hence not appear simultaneously 24(140)
TEXT (141).
IF, FROM SOUND WHICH IS OF ONE FORM ALWAYS, DIVERSE TORMS ARE PRODUCED, THEN HOW IS IT THAT THE WORLD IS SPOKEN OF AS
EVOLVED IN THE FORM OF THE Object :-(141)
COMMENTARY.
Further, if it is achmitted that out of Sound, which is of one form only, Wirions diverse forres are produced,-thon it will not be true to say that
Brahma evolves into the form of the Object'; because it is not right that when a ditferent thing is proditeed, one thing should evolve out of another in that form, without actually entering into that forin itself. This the Proposition set up by the other Party cannot be maintained in any way 44 all.-(141)
Another reason prut forward (in support of the view that the World is procneed out of Sout) ix-" because all things are permeated with Soundforms"; the following Toxt proceeds to show that this Reason is unproven Inadmissible
TEXTS (142-143).
IN THE CASE OF SUCH DIVERSE THINGS AS THE JAR, THE PAIL AND THE LIKE, IT IS FOUND THAT ALL OF THEM ARE OF THE NATURE OF Clay, WHICH DIFFERENTIATES THEM FROM ALL THAT IS NOT-CLAY; AND ON THE BASIS OF THIS IT IS ASSUMED THAT IN ALL THESR THERE SUBSISTS THE ONE CLAY-NATURE':- NO SUCH NATURE HOWEVER IS PERCEIVED IN THE CASE OF SUCH THINGS AS THE Blue, THE Yellow AND SO FORTH ; HENCE THE ASSUMPTION OF ANY SUCH one nature AS IS PRECLUSIVE OF ALL THAT IS not-Sound WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY BASELESS.
(142-143)
COMMENTARY
As a matter of fact, there can be no one comprehensive notion of all things; everything has its own specific character, and thereby differentiated from homogeneous as well as heterogeneous things; whenever they are