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 XVI.
TEXT (892).
IN SHORT, ALL WORDS ARE PRODUCTIVE OF INTUITION, THROUGH REPEATED USAGE ; AS 18 FOUND IN THE CASE OF MAKING THINGS
KNOWN TO CHILDREN AND ANIMALS.-(892).
COMMENTARY.
* Repeated usage ', -finding the word applied to a certain object again and again.
"Intuition ', -is a mental capacity which tends to bring about the notion of a certain activity as due to a certain cause; this capacity is produced by the word as associated with frequent usage; it varies with each sentence and with each person; as its diversity is illimitable, on account of the usage of words being endless, it cannot be described; hence all that is said is that it is like maling things known to children and animals the stroke of the driving Hook, used for making things known to the elephant, comes to produce an Intuition in the animal; in the same manner all expressive words, such as tree', etc. etc.-through repeated usage, come ultimately to produce only an Intuition and they do not actually denote anything directly. Otherwise, how could there be mutually contradictory interpretations of Texts? How too could there be any imaginary stories and other compositions which speak of things created by the imagination of the writer ? -(892)
The Author now proceeds to refute the various theories (regarding the Import of Words, that have been set forth in Texta 887-892)
TEXTS (893-894).
What is expressed by the Verb "to be 18 SAID TO BE DENOTRD BY WORDS: IS IT MEANT TO BE THE SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALITY OF THINGS? OR THE UNIVERSAL' OR THE CONTaor? OR SOMETHING ELSE WHICH REFLBOTS THE COGNITION ? -THE OBJECTIONS TO EVERYONE OF THOSE ALTERNATIVES HAVE BEEN ALREADY SET FORTH ABOVE. FURTHER, AS FOR what is expressed by the Verb to be', WHICH HAS BEEN HELD TO FORM THE IMPORT OF WORDS,—THERE CAN BE NO DIVERSE USAGE BASED UPON
THAT.-(893-894)
COMMENTARY If what is expressed by the Verb to be is held to be of the nature of what has been expounded before,—then it is open to the same objections that