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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TATTTASANGRARA: CHAPTER XI.
TEXTS (677-678).
IF IT BE HELD THAT" Number, Conjunction AND THE REST CANNOT BE
NON-DIFFERENT FROM Substance, BECAUSE THEY SERVE TO CHARACTERISE AND DIFFERINTIATE THIS LATTER, -LIKE THE Stick", -THEN (OUR ANSWER IS THAT THERE IS PROVING OF WHAT IS ADMITTED BY US, IF WHAT IS MEANT IS THAT THEY HAVE AN ILLUSORY EXISTENCE'; BECAUSE WHAT IS IMAGINARY' CANNOT BE DEFINED EITHER AS THIS OR NOT THIS'.
(677-678)
COMMENTARY.
Says the Nyāya-Vaishēsika-" All the above-mentioned qualities, Number and the rest, cannot be non-different from Substance,-because they serve to characterise and differentiate Substances; -wlien one thing differentiates another, it cannot be non-different from the lattor, just as the stick, which differentiatos Devadatta, cannot be the same as Dovadatta."
If what is meant to prove by this argument is simply the denial of these being the same as Substance, then it is open to the charge of being futile. Because all things that have an illusory or imaginary existence' are non entities, and as such it cannot be asserted in regard to them as to whether they are the same as, or different from, anything. And this is what is admitted by us also.-(677-678)
The following Text anticipates the Answer given to the above by Aviddhakarna
TEXT (679).
IF THE FACT OF THE GROUP' AND SUCH THINGS BEING undefinable
IS DENIED BY THE OPPONENT) ON THE GROUND THAT THEY HAVE DISTINOTIVE FEATURES, JUST LIKE Colour, SOUND, TASTE AND OTHER THINGS,- (then our answer is as
given in the next Text].—(679)
COMMENTARY.
He las argued as follows:- The particular states of the Group and the Chain are not incapable of being defined as this or nol-this,-because they are endowed with distinctive features - just like Colour, Taste and such things."-(679)