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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perceived. For instance, having assumed the Relationship, wherefore could you not go on assuming other causes with unknown potencies ? 'Unseen Potency' would be common to both cases. And so on and on, there would be a disastrous regress.-(2663)
Having thus established the Invariable Concomitance (Premiss) of the Reasoning annulling the opponent's conclusion, the Author sums up the argument that mere 'Presumption' is 'inconclusive ',-a fact which has been explained before already :
TEXT (2664).
ALL USAGE BECOMES EXPLICABLE ON THE BASIS OF MERE CONVENTION PROCEEDING FROM THE WHIMS OF MEN; HENCE THERE IS NO
REASON FOR POSTULATING THE RELATIONSHIP.-(2664)
COMMENTARY. * The Relationship'-i.e. as an eternal factor.—(2664)
All this being established, the Author next proceeds to point out the self-contradiction involved in the argument of the Mimamsaka, set forth under Text 2273, to the effect that "For all persons ignorant of the Connection, the Connection becomes known through long-continued tradition, etc. etc.".
TEXTS (2665-2666).
IT IS MERELY SUSPECTED THAT THERE CAN BE NO OTHER EXPLANATION FOR USAGE ; BUT THAT DOES NOT BRING ABOUT THE PROPER COGNITION OF THE CONNECTION (OR RELATIONSHIP) WHICH IS BEYOND THE SENSES.-AS ALL MEN WOULD BE IGNORANT, THERE COULD BE NO LONG-CONTINUED TRADITION' WHICH COULD ESTABLISH THE CONNECTION IN QUESTION. HOW THEN CAN SUCH AN ASSUMPTION BE MADE ?
-(2665-2666)
COMMENTARY.
If all men are ignorant,—then every preceding generation would also be ignorant ; under the circumstances, how could the Connection be established by that tradition ? No tradition of Blind people ever tends to bring about the right cognition of Colour; as says Shabara in his Bhäsya-In matters like these mere human assertion cannot bring about right cognition, just as the word of the blind cannot bring about the right cognition of Colour'
The following might be urged—"All men are called "ignorant', in the sense that they cannot perceive things beyond the senses, and not that they do not know anything at all. And it is on the strength of the fact that