On Being And What There Is Indian Perspectives On Question Of Being

SR No.: 269260
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Wilhelm Halbfass
Publisher: Wilhelm Halbfass
Total Pages: 15
Language: English
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Wilhelm Halbfass 109 28. Cf. G. Patti, Der Samavaya im Nyaya-Vaicesika-System (Rome: Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1955), p. 143. 29. The word can be used in a wide variety of contexts and disciplines, with more or less technical or common sense connotations; on the svam rupam reference in Sanskrit grammar, as 'autonymous' use of a word, cf. J. Brough, Theories of General Linguistics in the Sanskrit Grammarians, ed. J.F. Staal (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1972), pp. 402 ff. 30. Cf. Prakaranapancika, ed. A. Subrahmanya Sastri (Banaras: Banaras Hindu University, 1961), pp. 97ff. 31. Prakaranapancika, pp. 289ff. 32. Cf. Nyayasutra 4.1,38 (na, svabhavasiddher bhavanam) and Bhasya (... svena dharmena bhava bhavanti ...); an investigation of the role of sva in Hindu-Buddhist controversies would, no doubt, be worthwhile). 33. Cf, Nyayakusumanjali, pt. 1, ed. Narendrachandra Vedantatirtha (Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1954), p. 49 (on Karika 1:10); Kiranavali, ed. V. P. Dvivedi (Banaras: Braj Bhushan Das, 1919), p. 6: abhavas tu svarupavan api.... 34. Cf. Khandanakhandakhadya, ed. Laxmana Sastri Dravida (Banaras: Chowkhamba, 1914), pp. 12ff., 44ff., and esp. 1043ff. 35. This formula from Nietzsche's Twilight of Idols is quoted by M. Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. Ralph Manheim (Garden City: Doubleday, 1961), p. 29. 36. Consequently, B.K. Matilal's statement that satta, as "highest samanya," is "comparable with the notion of highest genus in the Aristotelian system" (The Navya-Nyaya Doctrine of Negation (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968], p. 123) is quite unacceptable in terms of Aristotelian thought. Bibliography All specific references are given in the notes. For background information, see: Frauwallner, E., Geschichte der indischen Philosophie, vol. 2, Salzburg: Otto Muller Verlag, 1956 (English trans., V. Bedekar, History of Indian Philosophy, vol. 2, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, 1972). Halbfass, W., Remarks on the Vaisesika Concept of Samanya, in Anjali ... A Felicitation Volume to 0.H. de A. Wijesekera, ed. J. Tilakasiri, Peradeniya: University of Ceylon, 1970, pp. 137-151. Dravid, R.R., The Problem of Universals in Indian Philosophy, Delhi: Motilal Banar sidas, 1972. Gilson, E., Being and Some Philosophers. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1952.