Alamban Pariksha

Author(s): Dinnaga, Dharmapala, N Aiyaswami Shastri
Publisher: Adyar Library

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ĀLAMBANAPARĪKṢĀ
succeding. But, for my own part; where is [the possibility of] incurring such a fallacy? For, I have accepted that it depends upon a substance (dravya) as well as collocation (samagri). Now it follows that even if some other objection is raised, that also may be taken to be answered.
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They postulate the subtle atom"
Though the subtle atom perishes as soon as it appears, yet two substances serve as a cause, but not collocation [of atoms]. For example, things, colour and others, though they are simultaneously present before the senses, become objects [only of their respective senses] without any confusion on account of the fact that the faculty of grasping a particular object is fixedly assigned to each sense. All substances are perishing, yet the double atom which is capable of existing [at the time of grasping] serves as the object
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cause.
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"Because the atom serves as cause for that."
The word that" means the consciousness of the It arises on a contact [of the sense-organ] eye, etc. with the object constituted of parts. So say some [Acaryas]: Among the causes, that which acts as the productive cause becomes its actual object."
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Contrast the Tattvasangrahapañ. p. 55 fexag¶: 1 Bhāvaviveka calls 2 atoms as a dravya v. Ui, Vais'eşika philosophy, p. 131.
"Read in the Sanskrit text p. 23, line 14: प्रत्ययेषु विज्ञानस्य उत्पादकहेतुः । Cf. Slokavārtika, p. 285 लम्बनत्वम् ।
znů: 7: उत्पादकस्यैवा