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(47) Dignāga's Criticism of the Mimāṁsaka Theory(M. Hattori) is not acceptable from the Buddhist viewpoint. Dignāga offers the same criticism to the Naiyāyikas too.
(Da) According to a certain Mimamsa advocate, the assemblage (samagri) of the factors of cognition is the means of cognition (pramāņa), because the cognition as the resulted content is produced through the
instrumentality of it.
The Vţttikāra holds the opinion that the cognition as the resulted con. tent is different (from the means of cognition). As there is, he maintains, no other result than the origination of a cognition (buddhi-janman), what gives rise to a cognition must be regarded as the means of cognition. And, at the time (of the origination of a cognition), nothing can be its cause but the abovesaid conjunction (samprayoga) of the soul and other (factors, viz., mind, sense-organ and object), which has been defined as the perception (pratyakşa), together with the impulse (to produce a cognition, which is given to the soul by that conjunction. Therefore, it is the assemblage of above-mentioned four factors that should be recognized as the means of perception.)
(This argument, is not free from being exposed to our criticism.)
Should it and none other be (the perception),
In case the assemblage of factors and none other should be called the perception,
what would be the use of the term 'origination of a cognition' (bud.
dhi-janman) (in the sūtra)?
If (the perception as the means of cognition should be taken in the sense) as has been explained (by the Vșttikāra), then the sūtra should
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20) PSV, I, Nyāya Section k. 2a-b: sântara-grahanam na syat praptau jnane
dhikasya ca / cf. SVK, ad IV, 41, Nyayavārttika-tatparya-ţikā, p. 118, Randle, Fragments from Dinnaga, p. 14, HJU, E VRO
+ # # # ( #*#ORART XXI) p. 63 ff. 21) Owing to limited space, the explanations will be omitted henceforward. 22) k. 6a-b:/ blo yi rgyu yi tshogs pa dag // brjod las hgrol bahi tshad ma gan / 23) k. 6c-d :/ gan las ci ste hdi ñid na ll de blo skye ba ci şig bya /
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