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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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XIII.
TEXTS (723-726). IN THE CASE OF THE Dhatri, Haritaki, ETO., IT IS FOUND THAT THERE IS
PRESENT IN THEM, EITHER SINGLY OR COLLECTIVELY, THE POTENCY TO REMOVE VARIOUS DISEASES; AND YET THERE IS NO UNIVERSAL (COMMUNITY) IN THEM WHICH HAS THAT POTENCY; BECAUSE THE CURE OF THE DISEASES IS FOUND TO BE QUIOK AND DRLAYED. - NOR CAN ANY DIVERSE PEQULIAR PROPERTIES BE PRODUCED IN THE * UNIVERSAL', THPOUGH THE DIVERSITIES OF THE SOIL, ETO. BECAUSE IT REMAINS ALWAYS IN ONE AND THE SAME PORM, THE SAID DIVERSE PROPERTIES, HOWEVER, ARE PRESENT IN THE Dhuitri, DTO. THUS THOUGH, AS A RULE, THINGS ARE ENTIRELY DIFFERINT, YET SOME OF THEM HAVING WELL-DEFINED POTENCITOS ARE CONCEIVED OF AS similar, AND HENCE THESE THINGS BECOME THE BASIS OF THE CONCEPTION OP similarity, ETC.,-NOT OTHER THINGS.-(723-726)
COMMENTARY. Dhātri and some other fruits, though of entirely different forms, are yet, severally or jointly, endowed with the capacity to remove various disenses,-evon without any comprehensive entity embracing them all.It cannot be right to urge that—"even in this case it is only a comprehensive
Universal' that does the effective act", for the simple reason that there is no such common Universal' over them capable of performing the various fruitful acts. If there were such a common Universal', there could be no possibility of the notion that people have, of the capacity of removing diseases quickly or slowly that is found in only some Dhätri, etc. and that At only certain times; as the Universel' would be of only one uniform character.-Nor can it be right to assert that," the said Universal itself performs the diverse fruitful acts, when it acquiros certain peculiar properties due to the soil as watered by milk and such things ";-because the Universal is, ex hypothesi, eternal, and hence incapable of having any peculiar properties produced by anything else ; and hence no such properties could be produced in it by the diversities of Soil and such things ; because the Universal' is always of one and the same form. As for the Dhātri, etc.; on the other hand, they are evanescent things and hence diverse properties are produced in them by the diversities of Soil, etc; and hence they become endowed with the diverse potencies of curing diseases. In the same mamer, other things also, like the Jar, are produced out of their Causal Ideas in such forms that by their very nature they come to be conceived of as of one and the same torm. Hence there is no difficulty in this case.
The term 'elc.' in the expression the basis of the conception of similarity, etc., is meant to include the capacity to perform such fruitful acts as the holding of water and the like.-(723-726)
The question being-"How is it proved that the Body of Conventions' comes between the functioning of the Senges and the appearance of the notions of Names, etc.) "—the Answer is provided in the following