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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TEXT (2526).
BECAUSE THE AUDITORY ORGAN BRINGS ABOUT THE COGNITION OF SOUND AS INTERRUPTED, THEREFORE, LIKE THE MIND, IT MUST BE REGARDED AS OPERATING WITHOUT CONTACT ;NOT OTHERWISE, LIKE THE SKIN (TACTILE
ORGAN).-(2526)
COMMENTARY. Tat-Therefore.
Not otherwise, etc. etc.' --This supplies the corroborative Instance for dissimilarity. In the case of the Tactile Organ (which operates by contact), the perception is not interrupted, and the same would have been the case with the Auditory Organ also (if this also operated through contact).-(2526)
In the following Text, the Author anticipates the objection that the Corroborative Instance of the Mind is one that is devoid of the Probandum, and supplies the answer to it :
TEXT (2527).
FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO DECLARE THAT THE MIND ALSO IS OPERATIVE THROUGH CONTACT", THERE SHOULD NOT be ANY COGNITION OF
FAR OFF THINGS IN A SINGLE MOMENT.—(2527)
COMMENTARY.
Uddyotakara, Kumārila and others put forward the following arguments in support of the sense-organs being operative by direct contact :-" (a) The Eye and the Ear must be regarded as operative by contact,-because they are external organs, like the Olfactory Organ. The qualification
External' is added in order to avoid the charge of being 'false' in view of the Mind (which is not operative by contact).-(6) The Eye and the Ear must be regarded as operative by contact --because being organs, they do not apprehend things hidden and far off,—like the Olfactory Organ. The qualification being organs' has been added for the purpose of excluding the object:-(c) Colour and Sound must be regarded as cognisable by means of those external organs that are operative by contact --because they are objects of external organs --like Odour and Taste.-(a) the Cognitions of Colour and Sound must be regarded as having for their objective basis such objects as are cognisable by means of external organs operative by contact, like the Cognitions of Odour and Taste”.
The objections against these arguments are set forth in the following: -