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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EXAMINATION OF THE FIRST CATEGORY_SUBSTANCE'
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of the form cognised; it then, the object of the Cognition had a forin other than that of the Cognition.—then Sound and other things might be the object of the Cognition of Colour, there being no difference between the two casos.-(565)
Even granting that a Cognition may have for its object something which has a form different from tlut of the Cognition itself,—even so, what the other party desire cannot be uccomplished. This is what is shown in the following
TEXT (566).
IT MIGHT BE POSSIBLE TOO IN THAT CASE, THAT IT IS THE White COLOUR (OF THE ROCK-ORYSTAL) ITSELT THAT IS ACTUALLY COGNISED ; BUT SUCH A COGNITION WOULD BE CLEARLY WRONG, LIKE THE COGNITION OF THE CONCI BEING
YELLOW.-(566)
COMMENTARY That is, (under the view of the other party) it might be possible that in the case cited, what actually exists apart from the White Substance (Rock. crystal) is the White Colour, which is cognised as 'red':-But even go, that does not prove the existence of the Substance with the Quality.--The cho' should be construed as after shukladayah'.
The Cognition wouid be wrong ',-i.e. not in strict accordance with the real state of things.-(566)
Another instance cited by the Opponent was that of the man covered by a cloak'.-That also cannot be regarded as 'Perception, because it is accompanied by a verbal expression ("this is a man'), and also because it is indistinct. It can at best be regarded only as an 'Inferential Cognition, as pertaining to the man' in the shape of the aggregate of Colour and other Qualities. So that this also does not serve to prove the existence of the Oom. posite Substance. This is what is shown in the following
TEXT (567).
THE COGNITION THAT APPEARS IN THE CASE OF THE MAN OOVERED BY THE OLOAK IS INFERENTIAL, AND DOES NOT APPERTAIN TO THE Man AT ALL; BECAUSE WHAT IS REALLY COGNISED IN THIS CASE IS THE Cloak HAVING THE SHAPE DUE
TO THE MAN.-(567)
COMMENTARY.
The compound laddhetusanniveshasya' is to be expounded as the cloak which has the shape of which the Man, who is only an aggregate of