Nyaya Pravesha Part 1

SR No.: 008423
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Anandshankar B Dhruva
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 228
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Philosophy
File Size: 5 MB

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यत्रासौ वर्तते भावस्तेन संबध्यते न तु । तद्देशिनं च व्याप्नोति किमप्येतन्मदाद्भुतम् ॥ न याति न च तत्रासीदस्ति पश्चान चांशवत् । जहाति पूर्वे नाधारमहो व्यसनसंततिः ॥ may be said that the lines quoted after "a" in this passage have been introduced as a criticism of Pras'astapada regarding and it has been attributed by Dharmabhüṣaṇa (a Jaina writer of the sixteenth or sevententh century A. D.) to Dinnaga. This would show that Dinnaga is posterior to Pras'astapada. But, against this, it should be noted that the passage is quoted not as Dinnaga's criticism of Pras'astapäda's dictum, but as his criticism of the doctrine. Moreover, the value of Dharmabhuṣana's attribution of the passage to Dinnaga is very much discounted by the fact that Dharmabhuṣaṇa belongs to a much later age, which is some twelve hundred years after Dinnaga, when it might have been a tradition to attribute all criticims of सामान्य to Dinnaga, the great apostle, if not the founder, of the area. Against this, some consideration may be shown to the fact that if the passage could be quoted by a writer of the 13th century it may not be impossible for a writer of the sixteenth to know the name of its author. Assuming then that the passage belongs to Dinnaga, the primà facie deduction from this passage is further strengthened by the consideration that "Pras'astapada does not reply to Dinnaga's criticism, as he might be expected to do if he had written later than Diúnāga,' (Randle). But, as Randle has pointed out, the argument is far from conclusive. I would add that for the purpose of the argument it is not necessary to rely upon the passage quoted in the Sarvadare'ana-samgraha. If there be any value in an argument from silence, there is the silence of Pras'astapada who does not refer to any of Dinnaga's criticisms of a found elsewhere.
(2) Vais'eṣika Sutra IX., ii, 1, (“aÌâ áâ æ áàìfù fâîìîâ exqfî à *") enumerates the real relations which form the basis of Inference. The Sutra is in harmony with the Buddhist view which divides as into कारण०, स्वभाव०, and अनुपलब्धि ०. But Pras'asta pada substitutes for these particular relations the