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 XIX.
The reason for this is pointed out-'The validity of a cognition, etc. etc.'* Validity' consists in conformity, which is the capacity to get at the real thing; and how could this conformity be unreservedly admitted in the case of Perception, if it did not derive its own existence from the thing perceived ? -(1628-1629)
The following Text explains what would be wrong if it were otherwise :
TEXT (1630). NO SUCH CONFORMITY WITH THE REAL STATE OF THINGS CONCERNED CAN BE CERTAIN, IN A COGNITION OF WHICH THE PARTICULAR OBJECT IS NOT THE BASIS, OR IN ONE WHICH HAS NO (OBJECTIVE) BASIS AT ALL, OR ELSE, THERE WOULD BE CONFORMITY WITH ALL
(THINGS).-(1630)
COMMENTARY. The compound ataddhëtuh' is to be expounded as 'na-taddhëtuh'; taddhëtuh' being expounded as that of which the particular object is the (objective) basis ; that is, that which is based upon something else :-in such & cognition, and also in a cognition which has no objective basis.-1.e. which is devoid of all objective background, there can be no 'conformity with the real state of the thing concerned', in all cases. "What then?"-There would be conformity with all things. So that the incongruity is present in this case also.-(1630)
Or, what the affirmative sentence 'Devadatta is fat and he eats not during the day' does is to bring about the inference of its own cause, in the shape of the speaker's particular desire to speak, this inference being based upon the Indicative in the shape of the effect of the said desire ; and then it brings about the idea of the contrary sentence 'He eats at night',but by implication, not directly,—through the inference of the character of the Cause, just as in the case of smoke, there is implication of its being due to defect in the fuel.
This view is what is expounded in the following
TEXT (1631). OR, IT MAY BE THAT WHAT IS INFERRED IS THE SPEAKER'S DESIRE TO SPEAK' RELATING TO THE SECOND STATEMENT ; BY THIS THERE IS COGNITION OF NEGATION FOLLOWING FROM THE
AFFIRMATIVE ASSERTION.-(1631)
COMMENTARY. By this'-.e. by the Inference of the character of the cause, -not directly; because it is from the affirmative sentence that the said 'desire