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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CHAPTER XIII. Examination of Sāmānya', the Universal'. With the following Tect the Author begins the criticism of the Category of The Universal':
TEXT (708). 'SUBSTANCE' AND OTHER CATEGORIES HAVING BEEN REJECTED, THE 'UNI. VERSALS' ALSO HAVE BECOME REJECTED; AS THEY HAVE ALL BEEN ASSUMED TO SUBSIST IN THE THREE CATEGORIES.-(708)
COMMENTARY. The Universals ',-1.6. the Genuses. These are held to be subsistent in the three Categories,-Substance, Quality and Action; and hence become discardod by the rejection of these Categories themselves; as without the Substratwn, the Subsistent cannot exist anywhere ; for if it did, it would not be subsistent at all.
The mention of the Universalis only by way of an illustration : the Ultimate Individualities also are held to be subsistent, as subsisting in Ultimate Substances; honce these also become discarded by the rejection of their substratum.-(708)
Even though the Universal' has been discarded, yet the Author is desirous of putting forward special objections against it; and as until the character of the thing is known, a criticism of it is not possible, he proceeds to describe the character of the Universal and the Particular':
TEXTS (709-711). THE UNIVERSAL '18 POSTULATED BY THE OTHER PARTY IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER: "IT IS OF TWO KINDS-BEING' IS A UNIVERSAL' WHICH IS 'UNIVERSAL' ONLY,-AS IT PERVADES OVER ALL THINGS;
SUBSTANCE' AND THE REST, WHILE BEING UNIVERSALS', ARE ALSO SPOKEN OF AS 'PARTICULARS'; BECAUSE IN REGARD TO THEIR OWN SUBSTRATA, THEY BROOME THE CAUSE OF THEIR COMPREHENSIVE NOTION, AND ALSO SERVE TO DIFFERENTIATE THEIR SUBSTRATA FROM ALL THINGS BELONGING TO OTHER UNIVERSALS'; -AND IN THIS WAY THEY ALSO BECOME THE CAUSE OF THE EXCLUSIVE NOTION OF THOSE
SUBSTRATA."-(709-711)
COMMENTARY. The Universal' is of two kinds—the Higher and the Lower; Being' is the highest Universal'; it is called Universal', common, because it