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 OT 'SELF-SUFFICTIONT VALIDITY'. 1369
the previous Cognition being the cause of the later one, the two are regarded as distinct, -yot there is no incongruity in the idea of the certainty being brought about hy it.-(3077-3079)
It has been argued under Text 2000, thnt-"no validity could belong to Auditory Cognition been so it could not be corroborated by the Eye and other means of Cognition ".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXTS (3080-3082). IT IS NOT TRUE THAT TRERE CAN BE NO CORROBORATION OF AUDITORY COGNITION BY THE EYE AND OTHER MEANS OF COGNITION. BECAUSE Colour, SOUND AND THE REST ARB DEPENDENT UPON THE SAME CIRCUMSTANCES. IN FACT ALL THESE ARE MUTUALLY CONCOMITANT AND, AS OCCURRING IN THE SAME CHAIN', THEY ARE THE CAUSE OF EACH OTHER. THUS IT IS CLEAR THAT THERE IS RELATIONSHIP AMONG THEM. THROUGH THESE THEN THERE IS CONNECTION AMONG THEIR COGNITIONS ALSO; JUST AS BETWRENSMOKE 'AND THE EFFECT OF WET FUEL'. THUS AUDITORY COGNITION WOULD BE QUITE VALID, -ON ACCOUNT OF BEING CORROBORATED BY OTHER COGNITIONS.—
(3080-3082)
COMMENTARY. It cannot be admitted that the Auditory Cognition cannot be corro. borated by other Cognitions. Because the sound emanating from the Lute, and the colour of the Late are both dependent on the same circumstances; and are consequently inseparable and invariably concomitant with one another; so that the two are quite related ; just like 'Smoko' and the * Effect of wet Fuel'. And as both appear in the same *chain' and are mutnally dependent, each preceding factor becomes the cause of each suc. ceeding factor : so that there is between them this direct causal relation also.-Thus among the Cognitions also of the said Colour, Touch, etc. there is similar cansal relation, based indirectly upon the above-mentioned relation.
In this way, Auditory Cognition can be quite valid, because of its being related to the other Cognitions, through the Eye and other Means of Cognition. -For instance, when one hears from a distance the sound proceeding from the Lute, if he wants to have the Lute, there arises a doubt in his mind as to whether or not it is the sound of the Lute that he has heard, this doubt boing due to the fact of the sound of the Lute being similar to the sound of the Flute; he then proceeds towards the Late ; and when he actually sees the Lute, the Doubt that had arisen as to tho sound being of the Lute or of the Flute or of singing becomos sot aside. At a place where the man hears what he thinks to be the reverberations of the sounding of the Drum, and proceeds towards it, if he does not perceive the drum,-then there being