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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TATTVASANGRAUA : CHAPTER XVII.
TEXTS (1230-1233). EVEN THOSE WHO ARE WEDDED TO THE NOTION THAT CONCEPTUAL
CONTENT CONSISTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE UNIVERSAL AND THE REST, HAVE TO ADMIT THAT IT IS 'IDEA ASSOCIATED WITH WORDSOTHERWISE, JUST AS THE TWO CONNECTED THINGS ARE NON-EXISTENT, SO THEIR Connection ALSO WOULD BE NON-EXISTENT, -ALL THINGS BEING CONCEIVED SEVERALLY EACH BY ITSELF; AND THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR POSTULATING THE CONCEPTUAL CONTENT AND THE RESULT OF THIS WOULD BE THAT THERE WOULD BE NO USAGE IN THE WORLD; BECAUSE USAGE HAS BEEN REGARDED AS ASSOCIATED WITH THE UNIVERSAL AND THE REST,-- AND ASSOCIATION WITH THE UNIVERSAL AND THE REST IS INSEPARABLE FROM ASSOCIATION WITH WORDS. THUS ALONE COULD THE EXPRESSION SPOKEN OF USED BY THE TEACHER BE TRUITFUL. -(1230-1233)
COMMENTARY. Even when Conceptual Content is regarded by others as association with Universal, Quality, Action and Substance', -in reality association with Name alone constitutes the conceptual Content. Because as a matter of fact, whenever a thing is apprebended as distinguished by tlie Universal, ete. it is so only through the Name: if it were not so, then-like the apprehension of several distinct things, there being connection independently by itself, how could there be any Conceptual Content'? And the result of this would be that the world would become dumb. It is for this reason that even on seeing the man with the stick, one does not connect the varions factors implied in the notion of the stick holder'. until he recalls the particular Name.
Just because all such connection is invariably concomitant with the (tssociation of worris, the words of the Teacher-to the effect that what is spoken of in the case of words like Cow' is the thing qualified by the Universal '-become fruitful (have some sense). Otherwise, without the Name, how could the (passive) term is spoken of be used 2-As the action of speaking (expressing) belongs to the word.-(1230-1233)
The following Teac sums up the argumente in favour of the notion of the Conceptual Content
TEXT (1234). Trus CONCEPTUAL CONTENT IS SOMETHING THAT CAN BE EASILY PROVED WITHOUT EFTORT, AS THERE IS NO DISPUTE REGARDING IT AMONG TEACHERS WHO TAKE THEIR STAND
UPON ALL TRUE DOCTRINES.-(1234)
COMMENTARY.
The following Text explains what Dinnaga really means by asserting the Conceptual Content in two forms.