Aptamimansa Critique of an Authority Bhasya

Author(s): Samantbhadracharya, Akalankadev, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: Jagruti Dilip Sheth Dr

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SECTION III PERMANENCE AND TRANSIENCE
37-40 Verses नित्यत्वैकान्तपक्षेऽपि विक्रिया नोपपद्यते। प्रागेव कारकाभावः क्व प्रमाणं क्व तत्फलम्॥३७॥
If one maintains that the things are possessed of the character absolute permanence', then too one cannot account for the process of transformation. And when there is already an absence (i.e. an impossibility) of agentship, how can one thing be treated as an authentic source of knowledge and another thing the result yielded by this source ? (37)
अथ तृतीयः परिच्छेदः सदसदेकत्वपृथक्त्वैकान्तप्रतिषेधानन्तरं नित्यत्वैकान्तप्रतिक्षेपः । पूर्वापरस्वभावपरिहारावाप्तिलक्षणाम् अर्थक्रियां कौटस्थ्येऽपि ब्रुवाणः कथमनुन्मत्तः ?, कारकज्ञापकहेतुव्यापारासंभवात्, परिणामविवर्तधर्मावस्थाविकाराणां स्वभावपर्यायत्वात् । तदेतद् विनाशोत्पत्तिनिवारणम् अबुद्धिपूर्वकम्, प्रत्यक्षादिविरोधात्, क्षणिकैकान्तवत् ॥३७॥
प्रमाणकारकैर्व्यक्तं व्यक्तं चेदिन्द्रियार्थवत् । ते च नित्ये विकार्य किं साधोस्ते शासनाद् बहिः ॥३८॥
It might be maintained that an authentic source of knowledge or an agent reveals the vyakta (lit. manifest - meaning the manifest phenomena allegedly the products of a root-substance called prakrti which is therefore alternatively designated avyakta or non-manifest) just as a sensc-organ does its object and that this source of knowledge and this agent are both something permanent. But what thing can be treated as capable of undergoing