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.
TEXTS (2559-2560). Thus, -INASMUCH AS NO 'MANIFESTATION' (OF THE WORD-SOUND) IS
POSSIBLE --the Cognition of the Word-Sound MUST BE REGARDED AS HAVING THIS CHARACTER THAT IT IS INVARIABLY CONCOMITANT WITH THE BIRTH (COMING INTO EXISTENCE) OF WHAT IS APPREHENDED BY IT, -LIKE THE COGNITION OF THE INDIVIDUAL JAR AND SUCH THINGS. -CONSEQUENTLY, BOTH PRODUCING' AND MANIFESTING '; -AS BROUGHT ABOUT BY effort AND articulation, -WILL HAVE THE DIVERSITY OF THEIR CAPACITY DETERMINED BY PRESUMPTION BASED UPON THE NATURE OF THE EFFECTS PRODUCED BY THEM. (2559-2560)
COMMENTARY
The argument may be formulated as follows:- What is occasional must be produced by a cause which also has had its production,-as for example, the cognition of the individual Jar-and the Cognition of the Word-Sound is occasional; hence this is a Reason based on the nature of things.
The Reason cannot be regarded as 'inadmissible', because as a matter of fact, the said cognition is not found to appear at all times.-Nor can it be regarded as 'inconclusive'; as the idea of Sound being 'manifested' has been already discarded.-Nor again can it be regarded as contradictory'; because it is found to be present in all places where the Probandum is present.
Idam-phalam' is a compound, meaning that which has idam this, i.e. being invariably concomitant with the birth of what is apprehended by it--for its phalam', net gain, character.
The rest is easily understood.-(2559-2560)
The objections against the view that the Auditory Organ consists of Space have been already stated before ; hence they are not stated again ; the Author only reminds the reader of what has been said before -
TEXT (2561).
ALL THOSE REASONS THAT GO TO INVALIDATE THE VIEW THAT THE AUDITORY ORGAN IS PART OF Äkäsha, SHOULD BE UNDERSTOOD BY INTELLIGENT MEN TO APPLY ALSO TO THE VIEW
THAT IT IS PART OF Space.-(2561)
COMMENTARY
It has been argued by the Mimämsaka, in Text 2204, that-"Even if the Embellishment pertains to the Object, it would affect that one object only, etc. etc."
The answer to this is as follows: