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.
many such things as the Haritaki and the rest, without any commonalty among them, perform the same function of allaying fever and other diseases -and exactly in the same manner the Black and other Cows, even though different among themselves, become, by their very nature, the basis of the unitary conception, even without any such entity as the Commonalty or the Universa).
Abhayādisamak':-.e. bke the Haritaki, etc.--the similarity consisting in fulfilling the same purpose.
On the basis of such things, etc. etc.;-on the basis of consisting in objects like the Haritaki and the rest.-brought about by the apprehension of the action of such causes,—is the determinate Cognition in this cognition there is the reflection, reflected image of the objects, i.e. there appears a reflection which is apprehended as the same as the objects ;-and it is to this apprehension that the name 'Apoha' has been applied.
Determinate', - this is an adjective qualifying cognition'.
* Arthätmata haue' ; -even though the character of the external object'is wanting.
Nishchitam-definitely apprehended.-(1005-1006)
Question :-"Why has the name 'Apoha' been given to it!" Answer
TEXTS (1007–1009). (1) BECAUSE IT APPEARS AS EXCLUDED (DISTINGUISHED) FROM
APPEARANCES',-(2) BECAUSE IT IS THE BASIS (OAUSE) OF THE COGNITION OF A THING AS EXCLUDED FROM OTHERS,-(3) BECAUSE IT IS COGNISED THROUGH AN ENTITY 'EXCLUDED (FROM OTHERS),AND (4) BECAUSE IT IS APPREHENDED IN THE FORM OF THE SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALITY CONSISTING IN THE EXCLUSION OF UNLIKE THINCS, BY PERSONS CONFOUNDED BY ITS SAMEWERS-THE NAME ' Apoha, ExCLUSION, OF OTHERS' HAS BEEN GIVEN TO IT, ON THE SAID
BASIS. (1007-10098)
COMMENTARY.
The name Apoha' has been applied to it on four grounds :-(1) Firstly and chiefly, because it itself appears as excluded (distinguished) from the appearances imposed by other conceptions,-the name 'A poha of others' has been applied, in the sense of what is excluded—* apohyata' from other s—anyasmāt':-On the other three grounds the name rests only indirectly (figuratively). (2) For instance, through imposing the character of the Effect upon the Ortuse ; as when the name is applied because it is the cause of the cognition of a thing as excluded from others ;-(3) it is applied