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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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXIV.
Further, whenever there is cognition of the meaning of a sentence, it is always found to be based upon Convention ; e.g. sentences like 'ad-gunah' (Panini's Sätra, defining what is guna'), bring about the cognition of what is meant by the technical terms *guna, vyddhi' and the like the cognition of the meaning of the Injunctive Sentence is cognition of the meaning of a sentence ;-henee this is a reason based upon the nature of things. This is what is shown in the words In accordance with Conventions, etc. etc.'
Like the technical terms, cto, etc. --The attix 'vali' has the sense of the Locative.
In support of the said idea it is added-seithout any basis ' That is, it is just possible that without any reason, through their unbridlod imagination, for the purpose of making a living-the Sacrificers' have assured the meanings of such Vedio sentences as-Desiring Heaven, one should offer the Agnihotra'.
Then again, as a matter of fact, whatever is a compilation is a human product,-e.g. Dramas and Stories, -and the Veda is a compilation of words -hence this is a reason based on the nature of the thing.
Thus then, as the Veda is a human work, it must be unreliable-like the words of the man by the roadside.
It might be that it is reliable because it is tho work of a reliable person.
The answer to that is-- There is no reliable person knowon, etc. etc.(2336-2338)
To the above, the Minimsaka unakes the following answer:
TEXTS (2339-2340) "THE ETERNALITY OF THE SENTENCE IS TO BE ASSERTED IN THE SAME
MANNER IN WHICH THE ETERNALITY OF THE CONNECTION (BETWEEN WORD AND MEANING) HAS BEEN ASSERTED. Shlokavārtika-Ox SENTENCE, 365).—EVEN THOUGH IN THE CASE OF THE TECHNICAL WORDS LIKE 'wrddhi', WHAT HAS BEEN ASSERTED MAY BE POSSIBLE BECAUSE THESE DEAL WITH PERCEPTIBLE THINGS ; IN REGARD TO THE VEDA HOWEVER, THE IDEA OF CONVENTIONALITY IS NOT POS. SIBLE; BECAUSE BY WHOM HAS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN HEAVEN AND THE SACRIFICES (SPOKEN OF IN THE VEDA)-WHICH IS BEYOND THE REACH OF THE SENSES, BEEN PERCEIVED ?"-(2339-2340)
COMMENTARY.
The reasoning that has been put forward above in support of the view that the Connection between the Word and its Meaning cannot be artificial, -under the Text 2257,-on the basis of that same reasoning the eternality of the Vedic Sentence also may be asserted.
The Mimämsaka points out the 'inconclusive character of the rensoning put forward by the Opponent, under Text 2337-in the words- Because