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________________ EXAMINATION OF THE FIRST CATEGORY_SUBSTANCE'. 319 TEXT (519). SUBSTANCE HAS BEEN HELD TO BE OF NINE KINDS--DIVIDED UNDER THE DIFFERENT HEADS OF EARTH AND THE REST ; OF THESE, THE FOUR BEGINNING WITH THE EARTH' ARE OF TWO KINDS—eternal AND non-eternal.-(549) COMMENTARY. The idea underlying this Betting forth of the subdivisions is that when the subject has been this stated, it is easier to find fault with it. Nine Icinds',-as stated in tho Süera (Vaishëşika) Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Akasha, Time, Space, Soul and Mind'. From among these, Substance in the form of the first four-i.. Earth, Water, Fire and Airis of two kinds, being eternal and non-eternal.-(549) Those two kinds are shown in the following TEXT (550). THRATOMS' THAT HAVE BEEN HELD TO BE OF THE NATURE OF EARTH AND THE REST ARE eternal ; WHILE THOSE MADD OP OF THE ATOM AND THE REST ARE EVANESCENT.-(550) COMMENTARY. Earth, etc. in the form of the stom are eternal, -the Atoms being eternal. Those that are made up of the Atom and the rest are non-eternal, according to the Law that what has a Cause must be non-eternal. "Atom and the rest ',-i.e. those among which Atoms are the first. Alāsha and the rest are eternal ;- such is the sense of the Text.-(550) The Author proceeds to discard Substance' of the said four kinds TEXT (551). AMONG THESE, THE NON-EXISTENCE OF THE ETERNAL (PERMANENT) ATOMS HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVED, BY ESTABLISHING THE FACT OF ALL THINGS BEING IN A STATE OF PERPETUAL FLUX'.-(551) COMMENTARY. Among these, what have been described as Earth and the rest in the form of Permanent Aloms,-the non-existence of these in the form of anything permanent has been proved by the establishing of the Perpetual Flux of things which pervades over all things, the Universal proposition having
SR No.007608
Book TitleTattva Sangraha Vol 1
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorKamlashila, Ganganatha Jha
PublisherOriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year1937
Total Pages753
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English
File Size42 MB
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