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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ON 'QUALITY
AS A CATEGORY.
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kinds is vouched for by Perception. Others have held it to be established by Inference also, on the ground that all specific cognitions are dependent upon diverse causes."
The denial of this Number is set forth in the following
TEXT (638).
"NUMBER', WHIOR IS HELD TO BE PERCEPTIBLE, DOES NOT APPEAR IN COGNITION AS ANYTHING DISTINCT FROM SUCK NAMES AS
THE ELEPHANT ', sro, WHICH CONNOTE 'NEGATION OF THE CONTRARY'; HENCE IT MUST BE NON
EXISTENT.-(638)
COMMENTARY.
Such names as elephant' are applied to the animals as being the negation of what is not-elephant,guch things as the Aggregate and the like;apart from such names, there is no such thing as Number which is per. ceptible; hence it must be non-existent, like the Hare's Horng'And yet it has been held (by the other party) to be perceptible; as declared in the following Sutra-* Number, Dimension, Separateness, Conjunction, Disjunction, Priority, Posteriority, as subsisting in coloured things are perceptible by the Eye" -(638)
The following Teals show that the existence of Number' is not proved by the Cognition of specific individualities :
TEXTS (639-640). AS IN COGNITION, SO IN THINGS LIKE THE JAR ALSO, THE NOTTON OF
* ONE' AND THE REST IS ONE THAT FOLLOWS ONLY FROM AN IMAGINARY CONVENTION SET UP BY A MERE WHIM. THERE CAN BE NO DIFFERENTIATING NUMBER IN THESE (COGNITIONS), BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT 'SUBSTANCE'.-NOR CAN THE NOTION BE SAID TO BE FIGURATIVE', AS IT IS NOT FOUND
TO BE FALLIBLE.-(639-640)
COMMENTARY.
There are such notions as 'one cognition', 'two cognitions' and so forth,-in which the notions of one, two, etc., appear even though there are no such Numbers actually present (in the Cognitions) ;--in the same manner, in the case of a Jar also when it is not accompanied by anything else, there is the notion of its being one'; and this must have its source in the imaginary convention that has been set up by people. Consequently the argument based upon such notions cannot be conclusive.