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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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER X.
colour is not percei vod.--(e) Similarly wlien a man is covered by a long cloak roaching to his feet, oven though his dark complexion and other details are not sean, the perception that it is n'man 'is there all right.---(d) In the case of pieces of cloth coloured with saffron, ete., even though the natural colour of the cloth itself is suppressed, yet the Cognition of the Cloth' itself is tliere."-(557-558)
It has been explained above that the distinction between the Substance and its Quality is vouched for by Perception itself; in the following Teals, they proceed to show that it is proved by Inference Also:
TEXTS (559-560).
"(A) COLOUR AND OTHER QUALITIES ARE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM THE LOTUS AND OTHER THINGS, BECAUSE THEY ARE DISTINGUISHED BY THESE (LATTER-JUST AS THE HORSE 13 DISTINGUISHED BY Chaitra (THE RIDER).-(B) OR, THE EARTH AND OTHER SUBSTANCES ARB ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM COLOUR, ODOUR AND OTHER QUALITIES BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENTLY SPOKEN OF BY MEANS OF WORDS IN THE SINGULAR AND PLURAL NUMBERS (RESPECTIVELY), JUST AS THE MOON (SINGULAR) AND THE STARS' (PLURAL) ARE DIFFERENT."-(559-560)
COMMENTARY.
The Quality is different froin the Lotus, because they are spoken of as the Qualities of the Lotus', where the Qualities are distinguished by the Lotus : just as in the expression Chaitra's horse', the Horse is distinguished -i.e. differentiated-from other riders, by Chaitra, and is therefore different from him.
Each of the Substances, -Earth, Water, Fire and Air,--are different from (tho Qualities) Colour, Taste, Odour and Touch, -bocause they are Epoken of by means of words in the Singular and Plural numbers (respec. tively),just as the Moon and the Stars : just as 'Moon' being in the Singular number and the Stars in the Plural number form the basis of difference between them, so also Earth is in the Singular muunber, and the compound
Colour-Taste-Odour-Touch' is in the Plural number; similarly Water, * Air' and 'Fire' also.
The several Stars' meant are Prşya and the rest.-(559.560)
Having thus proved the difference between the Quality and the Substance possessing the Quality, the Opponents proceed to prove the difference between the Composite and its Components :