Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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II ADITYAYA, 2 PÂDA, 21.
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we have again to declare the Bauddha doctrine to be untenable.
21. On the supposition of there being no (cause; while yet the effect takes place), there results contradiction of the admitted principle; otherwise simultaneousness (of cause and effect).
It has been shown that on the doctrine of general nonpermanency, the former momentary existence, as having already been merged in non-existence, cannot be the cause of the later one.- Perhaps now the Bauddha will say that an effect may arise even when there is no cause.—That, we reply, implies the abandonment of a principle admitted by yourself, viz. that the mind and the mental modifications originate when in conjunction with four kinds of causes ?. Moreover, if anything could originate without a cause, there would be nothing to prevent that anything might originate at any time.—If, on the other hand, you should say that we may assume the antecedent momentary existence to last until the succeeding one has been produced, we point out that that would imply the simultaneousness of cause and effect, and so run counter to an accepted Bauddlia tcnet, viz. that all things are momentary merely.
1 These four causes are the so-called defining cause (adhipatipratyaya), the auxiliary cause (sahakâripratyaya), the immediate cause (samanantarapratyaya), and the substantial cause (âlambanapratyaya).-I extract the explanation from the Brahmavidyabharana: Adhipatir indriyam tad dhi kakshurâdirûpam utpannasya giiânasya rūpâdivishayatâm niyakkhati niyâmakas ka loke : dhipatir ity ukyate. Sahakârî âlokah. Samanantarapratyayah pūrvagīânam, bauddhamate hi kshanikagñanasamtatau pûrvagñanam uttaragñanasya karanan tad eva ka mana ity ukyate. Alambanam ghatâdih. Etân hetûn pratîya prâpya kakshurâdiganyam ity âdi.
. Samskâra iti, tanmate pūrvakshana eva hetubhůtah samskâro vâsaneti ka vyavahriyate kâryam tu tadvishayatayâ karmavyutpattya samskârah, tatha ka karyakaranâtmakam sarvam bhavargpam kshanikam iti pratigñârthah. Brahmavidyabharana.
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