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 SĀMĀNYA, THE UNIVERSAL',
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wherefore then could the said notion not be regarded as produced by the Sense-organs, just like any other Cognition through the Sense-organs? If it were not so regarded, then it would lead to an absurdity, 4714)
The following Text seeks to prove the existence of Specific Individual ities' by means of Inference also :
TEXT (715).
** THE EXISTENCE OF THESE IS COGNISED BY MEANS OF INFERENCE ALSO: A DISTINOTIVE NOTION MUST BE DUE TO A
DIFFERENT CAUSE." -(715)
COMMENTARY,
A distinctive notion -a notion of a kind different from that of things like Substance, etc.
Due to a different cause', whose birth is due to other causes.
The inference may be thus formulated :—When one notion is different in form from another, it must be due to a cause other than the latter, like the notion of Colour in regard to the Cloth, the Leather and the Blanket ;-of this same kind is the notion of being 'in regard to Sabstanco, eto. hence this is a natural reason [for assuming a different cause for it, in the form of the Universal').-Such is the view of the other Party (the Nyāya. Vaishëgika).-(715)
The sense of the same argument is shown by setting forth the arguments propounded by Bhavivikta :
TEXTS (716-720). (A) " IN REGARD TO THE COW AND THE ELEPHANT, THE PECULIARITIES OF NAME— Cow' AND `ELEPHANT ', -AND IDEAS-MUST BE DUE TO CAUSES OTHER THAN CONVENTION, SHAPE, BODY, BTO, BECAUSE WHILE APPERTAINING TO THE COW AND THE ELEPHANT, THEY ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE NAMES AND IDEAS OF THESE LATTER :-JUST LIKE THE NAMES AND IDEAS WITH CALF' AND WITH THE GOAD (RESPECTIVELY) AS APPLIED TO THE SAME COW AND ELEPHANT. THE QUALIFYING CLAUSE HAS BEEN ADDED FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXCLUDING THE
HARE'S HORNS AND SUCH OTHER NON-ENTITIES. THE NAME AND IDEA OF THE OTHER THINGS ARE THE CORROBORATIVE INSTANCE
per DISSIMILARITY.