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

Page 356

ON QUALITY' AS A CATEGORY.
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TEXT (635).
THE RELATIVE (WHEREIN THE RELATION COULD SUBSIST) HAVING BEEN DISCARDED, WHOSE SUBSISTENCE' WOULD IT BE? AND WHERE? STILL A DETAILED DENIAL OF EACH
(CATEGORY) IS GOING TO BE SET FORTH.—(635)
COMMENTARY.
Subsistence is described as `inherence of the five categories'; so that when the substance and other (four) categories-wherein alone the said Relation could subsist,--have been rejected, whose subsistence would it be? and where? That is, of nothing and nowhere ; for the simple reason that all that could be the substratum and the subsistent have been rejected.-(635)
The detailed denial of Qualities is now set forth.
In this connection, the Sutra (Vaishëgika) is as follows "The following are the qualities : Colour, Taste, Odour, Touch, Number, Dimension, Separateness, Conjunction, Disjunction, Priority, Posteriority, Cognitions, Pleasure, Pain, Desire, Hatred and Exertion"; the particle 'cha', 'and, including Gravity, Fluidity, Viscidity, Momentum, Merit and Demerit and Sound.-Colour is what is apprehended by the Eye, and subsists in Earth, Water, and Fire ;Taste is apprehended by the Gestatory Organ, and subsists in Earth and Water ;-Odour is apprehended by the Olfactory Organ and subsists in Earth ;-Touch is apprehended by the Tactile Organ, and subsists in Earth, Water, Fire and Air".
From among these Qualities, the Text sets forth the denial of the first four-Colour and the rest :
TEXT (636).
IF IN A LARGE SUBSTANCE, THE Blue colour IS HELD TO BE one ONLY, TAIN HOW IS IT THAT THERE IS NO MANIFESTATION AND PERCEPTION OF IT WHEN IT IS SEEN IN LIGHT COMING
THROUGH AN APERTURE ?-(636)
COMMENTARY.
Qualities are perceptible only when they subsist in a large substance ; that is why the Text has added the epithet 'large
If it is held that the Blue Colour, --in all its four forms,-that subsiste in a Large Substance is one only and without parts, then, at the time that there is manifestation of the Blue Colour as subsisting in a large substance like the Jar placed in a small room, through lamp light coming through an aperture in the split bamboo or some such thing, -the whole of the Blue Colour subsisting in the whole Jar should be manifested and perceived ; because it has no parts; 29 & single entity cannot have parts, by virtue of which there would be manifestation of one part only.