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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TATTVASANGRAFA CHAPTER XVI.
Cognition through the Eye'; the meaning being thin-'Colour is cognisable by Cognition through the eye only, not by Cognition through the Ear anil other organs!:-(1172)
TEXTS (1173-1174). THE WORD COGNISABLE' IS USED WHEN THERE ARE SUCH DOUBTS AS(a) ARE ALL THINGS COGNISABLE AS MOMENTARY, OR NOT I(6) ARE ALL THINGS COGNISABLE BY THE COGNITION OF AN ALL-KNOWING PERSON? (c) ARE NEGATIONS, WHICH DO NOT BRING ABOUT ANY COGNITION, COGNISABLE -
(1173-1174)
COMMENTARY
(a) 'Are all things cognisable as momentary, or not?!-(6) "Are all things cognisable by the Cognition of an Omniscient Person ?-(c) 'Are Negations, which are of the nature of the absence of all determining features, and which do not even bring about a cognition-cognisable ? - When such doubts appear, then, it is said all things are cognisable as momentary ;and they are cognisable by an Omniscient Person and Negations also are cognisable'.-And in all these what is excluded "(negatived) is the supposition that 'things are cognisable as non-momentary and so forth.—1173-1174)
Question :-"Is all this supposition negatived by the mere assertion (of cognisability in a certain form) ?"
Answer
TEXT (1175).
THAT THEY ARE cognisable IN THE FORMS ASSERTED FOLLOWS FROM THE FACT THAT IT HAS BEEN PROVED THAT ALL THINGS ARE momentary AND 30 TORTU. NEGATION ALSO IS cognisable as illusory, us
IT HAS BEEN PROVED THAT IT IS IN THAT FORM.-(1175)
COMMENTARY,
In the forms asserter i.e. as 'momentary and the rest ; as all this has been established by proofs.
Question :-"How is Negation cognisable "
Answer:- Negation also is cognisable, etc, etc.' ;- in that form ',-i.e. in the form of Negation.
As a matter of fact, even non-entities are also somehow proved to exist, hence they are regarded as cognisable; if they were not so, then there could be no usage regarding them.-- (1175)
Says the Opponent :-" Are Words cognisable as evanescent (non-eternal), or not?-When this doubt is raised, and the answer is-'cognisable;