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पृथिव्यादिशब्दस्य व्यतिरेकादिति। तस्य गुणाः बुद्धिसुखदुःखेछाडेषप्रयत्नधर्माधर्मसंस्कारसंख्यापरिमाणाप्टथक्क (सं)योगविभागाः
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श्रीमनोहरदेवशर्मणः पुस्तकमिदम् । The manuscript ends towards the end of the section on , soul (ātmaprakaraṇa).
Padārthadharmasamgraha is the earliest exposition that we have of the Vaiseșikasūtra of Kaņāda by Prasastapāda. It, as we have it, is not a running commentary on the Sūtras but an independent treatise on the system as a whole, introducing many things new about the qualities, the doctrine of creation, the theory of fallacies, and the supreme Lord of the universe. Though popularly known as Prasasta pādabhāsya, it does not strictly follow the line of the original Sūtras of Kaņāda and as many as forty sūtras have been left out uncommented. The book is not divided into chapters and āhnikas (sections comprising the daily teachings of the philosopher) but deals with the six categories, zat (substance), Ju (quality), FH (action), सामान्य (generality), विशेष (particularity), and समवाय (inherence), one after another, the knowledge of which leads to mokşa, final emancipation.
The text is printed, ed. Vindhyeśvariprasāda Dvivedin, Vizss. Benares, 1895; trans. G. Jhā, Pandit, N.S. XXV-XXXIV, together with Kaņāda's Sūtra, ed. Candrakānta, Calcutta, 1887; BI., 1861; Benss., 1885–9; in
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The printed editions have - afaria fefa. rafawat: is evidently a slip of the scribe.
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