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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TATIVASANGRAHA (HAPTER VII.
TEXTS (462-463).
** TAK SITBSEQUENT COGNITION OF THE SUN AND OTHER THINGS MUST APPERTAIN TO THE SAME SUN AND OTHER THINGS THAT EXIST AT THE TIME OF THE COGNITION THAT APPEARS IN CONNECTIOX WITH THE SUN AND MOON, ETC., BECAUSE WHILE IT IS NOT A COGNITION OF ANYTHING RELATED TO THE EARTH AND OTHER THINGS, IT IS SPOKEN OF AS THE COGNITION OF THOSE THINGS (SUN, ETC.): - JUST LIKE THE PREVIOUS COGNITION OF
THE SUN AT THAT TIME." -(462-463)
COMMENTARY.
* The Cognitions-in dispute of the Sun, the Moon, the Planets, the Stars and suc)objects mttat appertain to the Sun, the Moon, the Planets, the Stars and the rest as associated with the time at which appeared the cognition of these Sm and the rest in Dēvadatta and other persons, ---because while not apprehended as related to the Earth, they are spoken of by means of the terın ilia Cognition of the Sun, the Moon, the Planels, the Stars and the rest ',Tiko Dévadatta's Cognition of these things on the first occasion."
Must apperlain lo, etc. i.e. to luminous substances.
While not apprehender as related to the Earth';this qualification has been added in order to avoid the invalidity that might apply to it on the basis of the Cognition of the Sun, etc. as painted in pictures.
"Subsequent',-i.e. a Cognition other than Dēvadatta's ; i.e. appearing at a different time.-- (462-463)
The following is an argument put forward by Bhavivilta :-"The substrata of Universals like Colour', the substrata of those substrata, and the particular Cognitions of all these, in the form of Perception, Inference, Analogical Cognition, Verbal Cognition, Remembrance, Recognition, Mystic Vision, Donbt, Wrong Cognition, Representative Cognition, Dream, and Dream-end, -all these cannot be liable to destruction immediately on coraing into existence,-because they are spoken of by such verbal expressions as-knowable', rightly cognisable', 'expressible', 'either existing or non. existing ', 'not characterised by cognitions whose object is something different from Being and Non-being', 'not apprehensible by cognitions whose objects are non-apprehensible', 'not expressible by words which are inexpressive * expressible by such words as are the products of sounds produced by the conjunction and disjunotion of homogeneous and heterogeneous substances, -like Previous Negation and such things."
Substrata of Universals like Colour, etc. are the Colour, eto. therselves. The substrata of these substrata', -What are these 1-Such things as the Jar, (which are the substrata of Colour, etc.). - Mystic vision, perception by mysties.-The others have been explained before. Either excistence or non-existence i.e. Being or Non-being.--Inasmuch as there