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 XIX.
TEXTS (1551-1553). Or, Similarity MAY BE AN ENTITY, RESIDING IN THE Cow, LIKE THE
COMMONALTY (OR UNIVERSAL); EVEN SO, IT WILL HAVE BEEN PERCEIVED IN THE COW STANDING BEFORE THE PERSON BEFORE HE SEES THE CO-RELATIVE (Gavaya); AND AS SUCH THE COGNITION OF THE SAID SIMILARITY FOLLOWING UPON THE SEEING OF THE Garaya CANNOT ESCAPE FROM BEING OF THE NATURE OF REMEMBRANCE.- {SAYS THE OTHER PARTY]" WHAT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY SEEN IN THE Cow is SIMILARITY MERELY EXISTING THERE, AND IT HAS NOT BEEN DEFINITELY ASCERTAINED THAT IT IS SIMILARITY to the Gavaya; WHILE THIS LATTER IS WHAT IS APPREHENDED BY ANALOGICAL COGNITION, WHICH, THUS, IS DIFFERENT FROM REMEMBRANCE."-(1551-1553)
COMMENTARY
There may be a real entity in the shape of Similarity; and it may be residing in everything in its entirety-But even so, when, before seeing the Gavaya, the man sees the Cow standing before him, he naturally sees the Similarity which is inseparable from the Cow; otherwise the inseparability of the two could not be there. And thus, as the subsequent Analogical Cognition would be apprehending only what has been already apprehended, it would not be a form of valid Cognition.
The following argument might be urged :-"The Similarity seen previously was merely an existing, it was not seen in the form that this is the similarity between this Gavaya and the Cow'; while this is the form in which the Similarity is apprehended by Analogical Cognition; so that it cannot be regarded as being of the nature of Remembrance"-(1651-1563)
The answer to this last argument is provided in the following:
TEXT (1554).
EVEN IF THE SIMILARITY HAD NOT BEEN PREVIOUSLY APPREHENDED UNDER THAT NAME, IT WAS APPREHENDED ALL THE SAME, IN ITS OWN FORM, WHICH IS CALLED ITS VERY
SELF.-(1554)
COMMENTARY. Even though the Similarity has not been previously apprehended under that name,- i.e. as 'Similarity to the Gavaya', -i.e. the animal Cow as similar to the Gavaya may not have been apprehended prior to the seeing of the Gavaya yet in its own form, it has been already apprehended; that is, that which forms its very self-its essence, nature, -has been previously apprehended.