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 this does not affect our position, as we do not accept either of these views. This is what is said in the words Nor do the other party, etc. etc.'-'Enam stands for the Convention. Parë '-Buddhists. - God or any other beings' .e. God, Brahmā and so forth.-(2627-2629)
It has been argued by the Mimāmsaka, under Text 2250,-"Would the Relationship vary with each being or would it be one only for all, etc. etc. ?"
The answer to that is as follows:
TEXT (2630).
THE RELATIONSHIP WITH BACH BEING MUST BE DIFFERENT, BECAUSE OF
PERPETUAL FLUX'; AS FOR THE IDEA OF SIMILARITY,
THAT IS NOT INCOMPATIBLE WITH difference.-(2630).
COMMENTARY.
The second view is the one that is favoured. It would not involve the contingency of their being cognised as different; because, even when there is difference, there can be nothing incongruous in their being regarded as similar. Hence when the Mimamsaka said (in Text 2255) that there should be some idea of difference ' ho said what was 'inconclusive ',-(2630)
The following might be urged "The Perpetual Flux is not admitted by us; why then should you say that it must be different on account of Perpetual Flux ?”
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (2631) THE COGNITIONS OF THINGS CLEARLY APPEAR IN SUCCESSION; HENCE THEY DECLARE THAT (RELATIONSHIP) ALSO TO BE successive; OTHERWISE THERE WOULD BE NO SUCCESSION.
-(2631)
COMMENTARY.
* Tasyāpi'-stands for the Relationships. * Āhuh'-they (Buddhists) explain it as such.
* Otherwise, etc. etc. ie. there would be no succession in the Cognitions also.-(2631)
It has been argued by the Mināmsaka, under Text 2256, that—"As there would be difference between the ideas of the Speaker and the Hearer, the use of the Word would become vitiated, etc. etc." The answer to this is as follows:
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