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 DEFINITION OF " SENSE-PERCEPTION". 629
TEXT (1246).
As A MATTER OF FACT, WHAT MAKES THE COGNITION DETERMINATE APPEARS ALONG WITH THE COGNITION ITSELF; HENCE THE COGNITION BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE SENSES IS CLEARLY non-determinate
(FBEE FROM CONCEPTUAL CONTENT).-(1246)
The Opponent might urge that the fact of the determining factor appearing along with the Cognition cannot be accepted. This is the argument put forward in the following
TEXT (1247),
IF IT BE HELD THAT " COGNITIONS APPEAR IN SCOCESSION (NEVER SIMULTANBOUSLY), AND THE IDEA OF SIMULTANEOUS APPEARANCE IS DUE TO THE QUICKNESS OF THE SUOCESSION; AS IN THE CASE OF THE WHIRLING FIRE-BRAND "[THEN THE ANSWER IS AS STATED IN
THE FOLLOWING TEXT]-(1247)
COMMENTARY.
The question being raised as to why the Cognitions are perceived as appearing simultaneously, if, in reality, they appear in succession, the Answer given is that the idea of simultaneous, etc. etc.'; as in the case of the whirling fire-brand. That is, in the case of the whirling fire-brand, it is found that when the whirling is done very quickly, the idea produced is that of a single flaming circle; all the several perceptions being mixed up as one ; in the same manner, cognitions appearing very quickly one after the other, there is the idea of their appearing together as one.
Or, the term alāta' may be taken as standing for the perceptions of the fire-brand, the cognition being spoken of figuratively as the object; the sense of the affix 'vali' remains the same as before, in this interpretation also. -(1247)
The above argument of the Opponent is answered in the following
TEXT (1248). WHAT HAS BEEN ASSERTED IS THAT THERE IS NO PERCEPTIBLE CONCEPTUAL CONTENT WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NAME OF THE
OBJECT BEFORE THE MAN'S EYES.-(?)-(1248)
COMMENTARY.
What is meant is as follows What is being dealt with is not the fact of the two appearing together, but the absence of Conceptual Content in the