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 THE IMPORT OF WORDS.
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the hearer would be that of the non-cow'; because that is held to be the
import of the word the notion regarding which appears directly and immediately after the word ; the notion of the negation of the non-cow does not appear directly and immediately after the word Cow',-Thus, on account of the incongruity of there being no notion of the Cow, and on account of the incongruity of the first appearance of the notion of the noncow, Apoha (Negation of others) cannot form the Import of Words." -1914)
The Author next proceeds to set forth objections against Apoha, from the point of view of Kumārila:
TEXT (915).
“THOSE WHO HAVE ADMITTED THE UNIVERSAL NEGATION OF THE
NON-COWAS THE IMPORT OF THE WORD HAVE, BY THE EXPRESSION, ADMITTED THE UNIVERSAL 'Cow' AS
AN ENTITY."-(Shloka vārtika-Apoha 1]-(915)
COMMENTARY.
Kumarila has argued as follows When the Universal Negation of the Contrary' is asserted to be the Import of words, it could be either in the form of Preclusion or the negation of what is possible':-If it be the former, then the Proposition is open to the charge of being futile', inasmuch as we also hold that what is denoted by the word 'Cow' is the Universal named 'Cow; and this is exactly what you also assert in other words when you declare that what is denoted by the word Cow is the Uni. versal in the shape of the negation of the non-cow'; so that the dispute is only in regard to the name (of the Universal)."-(915)
Question :-How is it the same thing asserted in different words? Answer
TEXT (916).
"INASMUCH AS ALL INEXISTENCE HAS BEEN HELD TO BE OF THE NATURE OF SOME OTHER EXISTENCE, PLEASE SAY WHAT THAT INEXISTENCE' IS WHICH IS OF THE NATURE OF THE NEGATION OF THE HORSE (AND OTEHR
NON-Cows)'”—[Ibid. 2]—(916)
COMMENTARY.
"Since all'Inexistence in the four forms of Previous Inexistence And the rest, has been found to be of the nature of existence';-as declared in the following words, while the Curd is not present in the Milk, it is called previous Inexistence; when the Milk is not present in the Curd, it is called