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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TEXT (951).
"IF THE QUALIFIED TRING IS COGNISABLE IN THE FORM OF NEGATION, THEN IT CANNOT BE AN ENTITY ; CONSEQUENTLY FOR YOU, THERE CAN BE NO ENTITY THAT COULD BE DEXOTED BY WORDS AS QUALIFIED BY A poha."-[Ibid.
Apoha 91]—(951)
COMMENTARY.
Negation-i.e. the 4 poha; cognisable in the form i.e. cognised as being of the same form as if the Qualified thing has its character such that it is cognisable in the form of negation ;-i.e. if the thing is cognised in the form of Negation.--then it ceases to be a positive Entity; as the negative' and 'positive are contradictory terms.
The argument is summed up in the words-Consequently, for you, etc. etc. '-(951)
The following might be urged-As a matter of fact, Words and Inferen tial Indicatives are found to operate only in regard to things as excluded from others, and not as devoid of such exclusion (A poha); and it is on that ground that it is asserted that the Apoha is established by Words and Indications, and it is not on the basis of the pointing out of what is eccluded ; so that all that has been urged regarding the theory being contrary to experience is not relevant ab all'.
This is answered in the following
TEXT (952).
* EVEN THOUGH THE WORD AND THE INDICATIVE MAY NOT OPERATE UPON ANYTHING DEVOID OF Apoha,-YET THE COGNITION RESTS UPON THE ENTITY WHICH IS WHAT IT APPREHENDS."-[Ibid.
A poha 92)-(952)
OOMMENTARY
Even though the thing may be excluded from others', -yet when Coguition arises in regard to it, through Words and Indicatives, it does not rest upon that Exclusion of others which may be there, but upon the element of Entity; as it is to this latter that it is attached. That factor of the thing which is apprehended by the Verbal or Inferential Cognition is really the object of that Cognition, and not anything else which, even though prosent, is not apprehended. For instance, even though the smell and other properties of the flower are there, yet these are not held to be denoted by the word 'Malati --(952)