Water And Ocean

SR No.: 269582
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Johannes Bronkhorst
Total Pages: 3
Language: English
Classification: Article, L000, & L999
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* 48 JOHANNES BRONKHORST WATER AND OCEAN - ABBREVIATIONS have occasionally been preserved in it. Yet it would be a mistake to invoke such traditional beliefs in order to explain features of the system without first exploring all systematic possibilities offered by the texts. It may therefore well be true that some, or even many, Indians of ancient and classical India looked upon salt as being substantially the same as water. However, Prasastapada the author of the Padarthadharmasangraha was not one of those. Ny Nyayakandali (of Iridhara), with three subcommentaries, ed. J.S. Jetly and Vasant G. Parikh, Vadodara: Oriental Institute, 1991 Vy Vyomavati of Vyomasivacarya, ed. Gaurinath Sastri (2 vols.), Varanasi: Sampurnananda-samskrta-vi svavidyalaya, 1983-1984 WI Word Index to the Prasastapadabhasya: A complete word index to the printed editions of the Prasastapadabhasya, by Johannes Bronkhorst and Yves Ramseier, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1994 NOTES . Section de langues et civilisations orientales Universite de Lausanne BFSH 2 CH-1015 Lausanne I WI 840: visayas tu saritsamudrahimakarakadi'. 2 WI 836: suklamadhurasita eva ruparasasparsa'. 3 See Bronkhorst 1992, 1999: 24ff. 4 WI $192: tvagindriyasarirayo' ... yutesv asrayesu samavayo 'stiti parasparena samyoga' siddha'. 5 See for the water body WI $38: sariram ayonijam eva varunaloke parthivavayavopastambhac copabhogasamartham; for the fire-body WI $45: sariram ayonijam evadityaloke parthivavayavopastambhac copabhogasamartham; for the wind-body WI $52: ayonijam cva sariram marutam loke parthivavayavopastambhac copabhogasamartham. 6 WI $47: akarajam (teja') suvarnadi. 7 WI $43: usna eva sparsah. 8 WI $47: tatra samyuktasamavayad rasadyupalabdhir iti. The Vyomavati (Vy I p. 87 1. 8) explains: samyuktam suvarnadau parthivam dravyam, tatra samaveta rasadaya upalabhyante. The Nyayakandali (Ny p. 117 1.9-118 1.2) goes further: katham tarhi gandharasayor anusnasitasparsasya ca gurutvasya copalabdhir ata aha: tatreti / bhoginam adsstavacena bhuyasam parthivavayavanam upastambhadanudbhutarupasparsam pindibhavayogyam suvarnadikam arabhyate, tatra parthivadravyasamaveta ime rasadayo gshyante! 9 WI 859: taijasebhyo 'nubhyah parthivaparamanusahitebhyo mahad andam arabhyate. 10 See the references given in note 3, above. 11 WI $119: raso ... madhuramlalavanatiktakadukasayabhedabhinnah. 12 WI 829: rasah sadvidho madhuradih. REFERENCES Bronkhorst, J.: 1992, Quelques axiomes du Vaisesika, Les Cahiers de Philosophie 14 ("L'orient de la pensee: philosophies en Inde"), 95-110. Bronkhorst, J.: 1999, Langage et realite: sur un episode de la pensee indienne (Turnhout: Brepols) (Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses, 105.) Slaje, W.: 2001, Water and salt (1): Yajnavalkya's saindhava drstanta (BAU LI 4,12), Indo Iranian Journal 44, 25-57.