Aptamimansa Critique of an Authority Bhasya

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

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CRITIQUE OF AN AUTHORITY .. तत्रएकमनेकनवर्तमानंप्रत्यधिकरणंनतावदेकदेशेन, निष्प्रदेशत्वात्। नापिसर्वात्मना,
अवयव्यादिबहुत्वप्रसङ्गात्। अथापि कथञ्चित् प्रदेशवत्त्वम्, तत्रापि वृत्तिविकल्पोऽनवस्था च। तदेकमेव न स्यादिति । नायं प्रसङ्गोऽनेकान्ते, कथञ्चित् तादात्म्यात्, वेद्यवेदकाकारज्ञानवत् ॥६२॥
देशकालविशेषेऽपि स्याद् वृत्तिर्युतसिद्धवत्। समानदेशता न स्यान्मूर्तकारणकार्ययोः॥६॥
On the rival's position it should be possible for an effect to occupy a place and a time that are different from those of its cause, just as two externally connected physical substances may occupy two different places and two different times. Nay, since an effect as well as its cause are corporeal entities it should never be possible for them to occupy one and the same place. (63)
Note : In Nyaya-Vaisesika ontology an extermal connection - to be contradistinguished from samavāya which may be called an internal connection' - can obtain only between two independent substances and not (say) between a quality and the thing qualified by this quality or between a universal and the thing possessing this universal. But the relation conceived to obtain between a composite body and its component parts is also samaväya, a position against which Samantabhadra argues that since in Nyāya-Vaiseșika ontology a composite body is one substance and its component parts another group of substances the relation between a composite body and its component parts ought to be not samavāya but 'external connection' which is the relation obtaining between two independent substances.
तस्मात् अङ्गाङ्ग्यादेः अत्यन्तभेदात् तद्देशकालविशेषेणापिवृत्तिःप्रसज्येत, घटवृक्षवत् । वर्णादिभिरनैकान्तिकत्वमिति अयुक्तम्, तद्व्यतिरेकैकान्तानभ्युपगमात् । अवयवावयविनोः समानदेशे वृत्तिर्न भवेत्, मूर्तिमत्त्वात्, खरकरभवत् ॥६३।।
आश्रयाश्रयिभावान स्वातन्त्र्यं समवायिनाम्। इत्ययुक्तः स सम्बन्धो न युक्तः समवायिभिः ॥६४॥
It might be pleaded that there obtains the relation of substratum-superstratum between two entities that are related through samavāya-relation and that therefore they