Tattva Sangraha Vol 2

SR No.: 007609
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamlashila, Ganganatha Jha
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1939
Total Pages: 887
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 84 MB

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TATTVASANGBARA : CHAPTER XXIV.
TEXT (2256).
“As THERE WOULD BE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE IDEAS OF THE SPEAKER AND THE HEARER (IN REGARD TO THE CONNECTION), THE USE OF THE WORD WOULD BECOME VITIATED; AS THE IDEA OF THE CONNECTION IN THE MIND OF THE SPEAKER WOULD BE ONE, WHILE THAT IN THE MIND OF THE HEARER WOULD BE TOTALLY DIFFERENT "-[Shlokavārtika-Sam
bandhäksēpaparihāra, 21-22].-(2256)
COMMENTARY
Difference between the ideas --The complete phrase should be difference between the Connection that forms the object of the ideas':-Hence the sense oomes to be this:-The object, the matter, that figures in the ideas of the Speaker and the Hearer,-being different, there could be no usage based upon the idea of the denotation of the Word) being one and the same.
Question - Why so ? Answer 'As the connection in the mind, ele. etc.
The Mimämsaka now takes up the view that 'the Convention is made for each mortal being' (the first alternative, under Text 2254): and points out the defect in it:
TEXTS (2257-2263).
"FOR THE PURPOSE OF SETTING UP THE CONNECTION FOR THE BENEFIT
of the HEARER,—WHICH CONNECTION COULD THE SPEAKER HAVE RECOURSE TO THE CONNECTION WHICH HE HAS PERCEIVED BEFORE, -that HE CANNOT SET UP FOR THE HEARER; WHILE THE NEW ONE THAT HE MIGHT SET UP HAS NEVER BEEN ACTUALLY FOUND TO BE EXPRESSIVE..... IF IT BE ARGUED THAT THE SAME ARGUMENTS APPLY TO THE JAR AND SUCH THINGS ALSO ', THEN THE ANSWER IS THAT IT IS NOT SO; BECAUSE IN THE CASE OF THESE WHAT IS BECOGNISED IS THE UNIVERSAL', WHOSE EXISTENCE HAS BEEN ALREADY ESTABLISHED ;-EVEN AS REGARDS THE INDIVIDUAL (JAR), THAT INDIVIDUAL WHICH HAS BEEN PERCEIVED TO BE EFFICIENT CANNOT BE SET UP; WHILE THAT INDIVIDUAL WHICH MAY BE SET UP HAS NOT BEEN FOUND TO BE EFFICIENT IN BRINGING ABOUT ITS EFFECT EVEN WITH ALL THIS, HOWEVER, IN THE CASE OF UTTERANCES, THE POTENOY OR EFFICIENCY HAS BEEN RECOGNISED ON THE BASIS OF THE CONFIGURATION (I.E. THE UNIVERSAL ').
THIS UNIVERSAL CAN HAVE NO BEGINNING ; BUT YOUR 'CoxNEOTION HAS BEGINNING. IF, IN CONNECTION WITH THAT (CONNEC