Vaisesika Vakya And Bhasya

SR No.: 269577
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Johannes Bronkhorst
Total Pages: 25
Language: English
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ABORI: Amṛtamahotsava Volume
The Padarthadharmasangraha as a whole is not written in this style, but some passages, usually dealing with the elaboration of rather obscure points of doctrine, are. Those that seem to be unacknowledged quotations from the Katandi will be enumerated and, where necessary, briefly discussed.13
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The first of these is in a certain way also the most remarkable. It is a vakya along with its explanation. The vakya appears to counter a preceding proposition, which, however, is not found in the Padarthadharmasangraha. The vakya therefore hangs in the air. Its explanation, on the other hand, can be read as a continuation of the exposition that started before the vakya. The only explanation of this extraordinarily strange state of affairs appears to be that Prasastapāda borrowed an appropriate passage from another text, but quoted along with it its introductory vakya, even though that vakya was out of place in its new surroundings. There is no reason to doubt that this, other text was the Kaṭandi.
I reproduce first the preceding passage of the Padarthadharmasangraha, followed by the presumed quotation from the Kațandi:
N p. 69; Ki p. 84; tr. Jha p. 152
K 6 vk 10
atmatvābhisambandhad ātmā / tasya sauksmyad apratyakṣatve sati karaṇaiḥ śabdadyupalabdhyanumitaiḥ śrotrādibhiḥ samadhigamaḥ kriyate väsyādinām iva karaṇānām kartṛprayojyatvadarśanāt / śabdādiṣu prasiddhya ca prasādhako 'numiyate/
na, sari rendriyamanasām ajñatvāt 1 na śarirasya caitanyam ghatādivad bhutakaryatvān mṛte casambhavat / nendriyāṇām karaṇatvāt upahateṣu viṣayāsānnidhye canusmṛtidarśanāt / napi manasaḥ karaṇāntarānapekşitve yugapad alocanasmṛtiprasangāt svayam karaṇabhāvāc ca / pariseṣād ātmakāryatvād ātmā samadhigamyate /
The following passages presumably quoted from the Kaṭandi are identified exclusively by their style:
13 The Padarthadharmasangraha appears to contain one acknowledged quotation from the Kaṭandi, which will be discussed below.
11. Many commentators (Vyomaśiva, Udayana, śridhara, Padmanabha Miśra) try to make sense of this vakya by supplying the word caitanyam from the following sentence for its interpretation.