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.
in the Hare sentience in the Earth and other substances, - Corporeality in the Soul-Odour in Wator,--Taste in Fire,- and both Odour and Texte along with Colour, in Air-Touch and the other qualities in Akäslut. Here'sentience' stands for the soul; Corporeality' for solidity :-*those two Odour and Tasts-along with Colour, would be there in Air ;-and Colour, Taste and Odour, along with Touch would be there in Akäsha.
Further, there could be no differentiation into Causes and Effects in the transactions of the ordinary world--if Negation did not exist in its various forms of Previous Negation and the rest. For instance, one who wants Curd, obtains Milk,--but one who wants Milk does not seek to obtain Curd ; similarly one who wants the Cow does not secure the Horse ; nor does the man who wants the Horse secure the Cow. It is in this way that business is carried on in the world.-(1651-1654)
The following might be urged- Even if there is this fourfold division, how does that make Negation an entity?'
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (1655). "THESE SEVERAL KINDS (OF NEGATION) COULD NOT APPERTAIN TO A NON-ENTITY; HENCE NEGATION MUST BE REGARDED AS AN Entity; FOR INSTANCE, THE NEGATION OF THE Effect CONSISTS IN THE TRESINCE OF THE Cause."--[Shlokavārtika
NEGATION, 8).-(1655)
COMMENTARY.
There can be no division of a Non-entity; as division always rests in entities.--Hence Negation must be an entity.
“What sort of an entity can it be?"
Answer: The Negation of the Effect, etc. etc. -The Presence of the Cause--Milk, for instance-is what constitutes the Negation of the EffectOurd; and the Presence of the Effect - Ourd-is what constitutes the Negation of the Cause-Milk. It is in this way that Negation is an entity--(1655)
The following Text sesls to prove, by means of Inference, that Negation is an entity :
TEXT (1656). " OR AGAIN, NEGATION MAY BE REGARDED AS AN entity,--LIKE THE Cow, ETC., BECAUSE IT IS APPREHENDED BY EXCLUSIVE AND INOLUSIVE NOTIONS, AND ALSO BECAUSE IT IS cognisable." - [Shlokavārtika-NEGATION, 9].-(1656)
COMMENTARY. Negation is an entity', this the statement of the Proposition; in support of this there are two Reasons: (1) because it is apprehended by