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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** THE REVEALED WORD."
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The answer to that is that such notions may be obtained; but even so, if the Reason is not inadmissible', it certainly is 'Inconclusive
This is shown in the following
TEXTS (2391-2393).
THAT VEDIC SCHOLARS DERIVE UNSHAKABLE NOTIONS FROM THE VEDA
IS DUE TO THEIR MINDS BEING INFLUENCED BY FAITH ; AND THIS IS EQUALLY PRESENT IN OTHER PEOPLE'S MINDS, IN RESPECT OF OTHER ASSERTIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, QUITE AS UNSHAKABLE NOTIONS ARE DERIVED BY THE BUDDHISTS REGARDING TROUBLE AND SUFFERING RESULTING FROM SACRIFICES WHICH INVOLVE THE KILLING OF ANIMALS. OF THIS LATTER NOTION WE DO NOT FIND ANY SUBLATION TILL NOW. IF IT BE SAID THAT “THERE MAY BE SUBLATION OF IT AT SOME FUTURE TIME AND PLACE”-THE SAME IS EQUALLY POSSIBLE IN THE CASE OF THE VEDIO SENTENCE ALSO.-(2391-2393).
COMMENTARY. Sa'—the firm conviction. Anyēşām '-of the Buddhist and other people.
Anyatah from such sentences as 'From sacrifices, involving the killing of animals, proceed trouble and suffering'.
This is what is shown in the sentence beginning with For example, etc. etc. It is easily understood.-(2391-2393)
The Author again shows that the premiss regarding the Veda being independent of personalities is 'inconclusive':
TEXTS (2394-2397).
IF THE VEDA EXPRESSED ITS MEANING BY ITSELF INDEPENDENTLY OF
CONVENTIONS MADE BY THE WHIMS OF MEN, -THEN IT MIGHT BE VALID AND RELIABLE, AS, IN THAT CASE, IT WOULD NOT ABANDON ITS MEANING, EVEN WHEN EXPLAINED OTHERWISE BY MEN WITH MINDS PERVERTED BY DELUSION, VANITY AND OTHER DEFECTS; AND IT WOULD DIRECTLY BRING ABOUT THE COGNITION OF THAT MEANING ALONE, AND NOT EXPRESS ANY MEANING THAT MAY BE DESIRED BY MEN.-IF HOWEVER, IT DEPENDS UPON THE WHIMS OF MEN, THEN IT DOES NOT DIFFER FROM THE COMMON ASSERTIONS OF MEN; AS IN THAT CASE THE EXPRESSING OF MEANING WOULD BE DEPENDENT UPOX MEN, AND IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE THAT IT MAY BE WRONG.—(2394-2397)
COMMENTARY.
The whims of men are unfettered ; if then the Veda depended, in the expressing of its meaning, upon Conventions made by the whims of men,