Tattva Kaumudi

SR No.: 010561
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Oriental Book Agency Poona
Publisher: Oriental Book Agency Poona
Total Pages: 329
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 19 MB

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Kärikā XLIII Virtue and other dispositions are--a) natural, which
are innate and (b) incidental, and these The means and are related to the 'cause '; and the Dharma, etc. ovum etc., related to the effect. '*
(196) 'Incidental,' adventitious; i. e., brought about 1. Incidental dis- after the man's birth, by the subsequent propositions
pitiating of the deities and such other causes. “The natural dispositions are innate," e. g., it is declared
that at the beginning of the Evolution the i Essential, in. revered primeval sage Kapila emerged into
existence fully equipped with Virtue, Wisdom, Dispassion and Power. The 'incidental dispositions, on the other hand, are not innate; that is to say, they are brought about by the personal effort of the man; such Virtue etc. are those belonging to Valmiki and other great sages. The opposites of the same is to be understond with regard to Dharma etc., similarly explained ** Vice, Ignorance, Passion and Weakness. (197) The aggregate formed of the ovum, foetus,
flesh, blood, etc., of the child in the mocher's Flesh, blood, etc., womb is related to the gross physical related to the Gross Body body; that is to say, they are particular states
of the latter; so also are the childhood, youth and old age of the person after the birth.**
* It may be pointed out that Davies has quite misunderstood this Karika. In the first place he renders Samsiddhikah by 'trans. cendental" the very reverse of what it does mean. Secondly, he renders Karanas'ruyinah by "including cause," though in reality the compound means "located in organs"-as explained by the Kaumudi as well as the Candrika.
** Gaudapāda has taken the kārıkā as setting forth three kinds of dispositions-(1) · Särsiddhika' innate. (2) Prakrtıka' natural due to the operation of Nature, Primordial Matter and (3) 'Vaikrtika incidental.