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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EXAMINATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF SELF-SUFFICIENT VALIDITY'. 1351
TEXTS (3024–3026).
AS REGARDS DEALINGS REGARDING DEBT, ETC. WHICH ADMIT OF ONLY three STATEMENTS, THIS CONDITION (OF THREE STATEMENTS) IS APPLICABLE TO THOSE CASES ONLY, AND SHOULD NOT BE CITED IN CONNECTION WITH Validity.-IN THOSE CASES, THE TWO DISPUTANTS MAKE STATEMENTS ON RECALLING THINGS TO THEIR MEMORY, AND DO NOT FIND TIME TO MAKE A CAREFUL SCRUTINY OF THINGS. AS REGARDS THE VALIDITY OF COGNITIONS HOWEVER, THINGS HAVE GOT TO BE DETERMINED IN REGARD TO THE REAL STATE OF THINGS, AND NOT BY MERE CASUISTRY. HENCE THE DEALINGS THAT HAVE BEEN CITED ARE NOT ANALOGOUS TO THE SUBJECT
UNDER CONSIDERATION. (3024-3026)
COMMENTARY.
The exact position regarding the validity of Cognitions, which is related to the real nature of things, forms the subject under consideration; while the transactions relating to Debt, etc. consist in Casuistry and are related to Conventions made by the mere whims of men; the citing of these transactions therefore only shows your ignorance of the subject under consideration.(3024-3026)
It has been asserted under Text 2884, that "it is for this same reason that Deities are called Tri-satya (Three-truth)".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (3027).
THE FACT OF THE DEITIES BEING CALLED TRISATYA' CANNOT LEAD TO ANY CERTAINTY (REGARDING VALIDITY); IN FACT, IF THIS CERTAINTY DOES NOT FOLLOW FROM THE VERY FIRST (STATEMENT), IT CANNOT FOLLOW FROM
OTHERS.—(3027)
COMMENTARY.
From the first '-i.e. from the first statement ;-if the certainty does not follow,--then that certainty cannot follow from others.--.e. from the two statements coming later on.-(3027)
The same idea is further elucidated :