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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Atoms; and hence the Blue and the rest form the shape of the Atoms; there being no other single object possible.-(601-602)
It has been argued above (under Tex/ 562) that "there could be no such word as Alom".
The following Tea:t supplies the answer to this
TEXT (603),
IT IS ONLY PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT UNDERSTOOD THS REAL NATURE OF THINGS THAT CONCEIVE OF ONE mass'; AND IT IS ON THE BASIS OF THIS ASSUMPTION THAT THE TERM ATOM' IS
USED.-(603)
COMMENTARY. * It is on the basis, elc., etc.'-i.e. these people are cependent upon the slight thread of the said assumption.-(603)
Another answer is supplied in the following
TEXT (604).
Or, TET NAME 'ATOM', AS APPLIED TO WHAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED, MAY BE TAKEN AS BASELESS, DEPENDENT UPON MERE CONVENTION; JUST AS THE NAME 'LORD' IS APPLIED TO
ONE WHO HAS NO PROPERTY AT ALL.-(604)
COMMENTARY.
As applied, etc. etc.', -ie. to what is iinpartite, and has no resistance, Just as even the poor man is praised as 'the Lord', where the name 'lord' is applied without any basis, on the strength of mere convention or custom,so also is the use of the name 'Atom'. So that there is no incongruity at all.-(604)
It has thus been established in a general way that there can be no single groas substance, either made up, or not made up, of component parts. The Author now proceeds to point out the weak points in the notion of that of which the composite is held to be made up :
TEXTS (605-606).
(A) SUCH THINGS AS THE YARNS AND THE HAND AND OTHER LIMIS CANNOT BE PERMEATED BY ANY SINGLE COMPOSITE',- BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE THAN ONE--LIKE SUCH WELL-KNOWN
THINGS AS STRAW, HUT AND JAR.