Dignagas Criticism Of Mimamsaka Theory Of Perception

Author(s): Massaki Hattori
Publisher: Massaki Hattori

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Dignāga's Criticism of the Mimāṁsaka Theory (M. Hattori)
with the thing (perceived by itself. Therefore the determinate cog
28) nition cannot be resulted by the sensory apprehension.)
According to the opponent's view, the sensory apprehension is competent to get an immediate awareness (alocana) of a cow itself shorn of any determinant as well as of that upon which it depends (aśraya), (i. e., its determinant 'cow-ness”). Admitting that this view is right so far, it is impossible (for the sensory apprehension) to conjoin these two factors
her. And where there is no conjunction of a bare thing with its determinant, there can be no means of determining that thing to be, for instance, a cow. In conclusion, we consider that all sorts of conceptual knowledge concerning the relation of the determinant and the determined (višeșaņa-viseșya) or of the name and the named (abhidhana-abhidheya) are but the subjective construction (upacāra) of the mind, and they are not within the range of sensory apprehension. For,
it is the self-cognizable, inexpressible form that becomes the object of . . sense.
Although the thing to be apprehended by the sense is composed of many elements, what presents itself to the sense is a particular (asadhāraņa) form, which causes the cognition thereof to originate. (This particular form pre
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28) k. 8:, ba lan ñid sogs ldan las don // ba lan la sogs hjal bar byed // don dan
yan dag hbrel pa la // dban pohi blo ni nus yod min / The same argument is found in PSV, I, ad Vaisesika Section k. la-b. cf. my paper, 7,-
TOMT 12 +-### t BECAME). Jinendrabuddhi, in the course of his comment on Dignāga's Vștti annexed to this verse, says as follows :/ ho na gzegs zan brtag par don ḥdi / yul la lta don can ñid kyi phyir, khyad par rnams kyis mtshams sbyor min/ (PS ,1, Vaiseșika Section k. la-b) șes pa bsad zin pa kho na stel de slar yan brjod pa ci șe na / de kho na/ ran gi rigs bya ses pa la sogs pas bar ma chad par hgyur
baḥi rigs pas / sin tu gsal bar byas paḥi don duḥo / J. 79a. 2-3 (89a. 2-3). 29) k. 9a-b:/ rig bya ran ñid bstan med pal/ gzugs don dban pohi spyod yul
lo/ This verse exactly coincides with PS, I, k. 5c-d: svasamved yam anir. deśyam rūpam indriya-gocaraḥ/ cf. DTDK, p. 13, note 34. cf. also J, 79a. 5-6 (89a. 7): ran gis rig bya ni şes pa la sogs pas......hdi yan du maņi no bohi chos can ni (dharmiņo 'neka-rūpasya......PS, I, k. 5) ses pa ḥdiņi nan du bśad zin to /
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