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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(A) NYAYA DOCTRINE OF THE SELF
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roproduction of the words of the Nyäyavārtika on 1. 1. 10, page 70, also on 3. 1. 1, page 340, Bib. Ind. Edn.) Dévadatta's cognitions of Colour, Taste, Smell and Touch must be due to one and to several causes, because they are recalled av mine',-just like the simultaneous cognitions of several men who have come to an understanding among themselves, relating to the glances of the dancing girl." -The meaning of this is as follows: “When several men have come to an understanding to the efiect that when the dancing girl casts her glances, we should throw clothes to her, there are several cognitions, by several cognisers, of the single object in the shape of the glances ', -and yet as the object cognised (the glances) is one only, each man recalls the cognition as I have seen', 'I have seen';- in the same manner, in the case in question also, the cognitions of several things would be recalled, on account of their cause (cogniser) being one only; and that one Cause is tlie Soul.-The recalling' of the cognitions also consists in their being grouped together in such expressions as 'It has been seen by me-heard by me' and so forth, as due to their belonging to a single Cogniser. In the case of the glances of the dancing girl' however, what is meant to be stressed is only the fact of the cognised object (not the Cogniser) being one. In all cases however the fact of the recalling remains, whereby several cognitions become associated with a single entity."
This argument of Uddyotakura's is set forth in the following Text:
TEXTS (180-181).
"ALL COGNITIONS OF COLOUR, ETO, SHOULD BE REGARDED AS HAVING ONE AND ALSO SEVERAL CAUSES,—BECAUSE THEY ARE BECALLED BY THE NOTION OF BEING COGNISED by me':JUST LIKE THE COGNITIONS OF SEVERAL MEN REGARDING THE GLANCES OF THE DANCING GIRL. IF IT WERE OTHERWISE, THERE COULD BE NO RECALLING, AS THERE WOULD BE NO BASIS
FOR IT."-(180-181)
COMMENTARY.
This is easily understood.-(180-181)
The following is another argument put forward by the same writer (Uddyotakara) :-[This argument is found set forth, in different words, in the Nyāyarārtika, under 3. 1. 19, page 368, Bib. Ind. Edition, see also page 340) — * The term 'Soul' must be expressive of something different from the aggregate of Body, Sense-organs, Mind, Intellect and Feelings, because it is a single term, while being distinct from the well-known synonyms of these lattor, -like such terms as Jar' and the like."
This argument is set forth in the following Text: