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 (2612-2613).
IT HAS BEEN FREQUENTLY EXPLAINED BEFORE THAT WORDS AND THINGS THAT ARE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM ONE ANOTHER ARE CAPABLE OF PROVIDING THE SAME IDEAS. HENCE IT IS NOT TRUE THAT THE WORD BECOMES EXPRESSIVE ONLY WHEN ITS RELATIONSHIP TO ITS DENOTATION HAS BEEN APPREHENDED. BECAUSE, AS ALREADY EXPLAINED BEFORE, IN REALITY, THE WORD, BY ITSELF, IS NOT EXPRES
SIVE AT ALL.(2612-2613)
COMMENTARY
The sense of this is briefly as follows:-If what you are urging is the contingency that there would be no real denotative relationship between the Word and its denotation,-then your argument is futile; because under the chapter on Word, the idea of the Universal', or the Specific Individuality' of things, being denoted by words has been refuted at length.
If what you are urging is in regard to the illusory denotative relationship, then your Reason is 'Inconclusive'. Because, as a matter of fact, there are certain things which, though entirely different from one another, serve to bring about cognitions of the same form; and these would bring about the illusory denotative relationship between the Word and its meaning :-as we have already explained in course of the discussion on Apoha'. Consequently, as against the Buddhists, who are upholders of the doctrine of Apoha, all that has been urged is entirely worthless and flickers only for a moment.(2612-2613)
The following texts explain the possibility of Denotation on the basis of Illusion
TEXTS (2014-2016) As A MATTER OF FACT, ALL COGNITIONS PRODUCED BY WORDS ARE
EXPRESSIVE OF WHAT IS UNREAL ; BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THERE CAN BE NO DENOTATION OF THE UNIVERSAL OR OF THE SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALITY AND SUCH THINGS; BUT EVEN THOUGH IN REALITY, THERE IS DIVERSITY, PEOPLE, THROUGH ILLUSION, COME TO TREAT AND SPEAK OF THE WORD— Cow' FOR INSTANCE, -As one ONLY,REGARDING ALL AS THE SAME.-THIS MUCH OF WHAT HAS BEEN SAID BY THE GREAT BRÄHMAŅA (Mimāmsaka) ON THE BASIS OF THE DIVERSITY OF WORDS IS ENTIRELY BASELESS (2614-(2616)
COMMENTARY. That idea is called Samorti' (Illusory) which, by its appearance, conceals-samurnoti'--the real character of another-through not mani.