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Gañadharavāda
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___D. C.-If the existence of some world like that of divine beings or hellish beings, is accepted since they, too, are not pratyaksa, their existence is also not acceptible.
On the other hand, the S'āstras refer to them and tell a lot of things about them. Your doubt about the existence of para-loka is based upon such mutually contradictory facts. ॥ 407 ॥ ( 1955 )
Here ends the pūrva-paksa The author now refutes the arguments of pūrva-paksa one after anotherभूइंदियाइरित्तस्स चेयणा सो य दवओ निच्चो।। जाइस्सरणाईहि पडिवजसु वाउभूइ व ॥४०८॥ (१९५६) Bhūindiyāirittassa ceyanā so ya davvao nicco i Jaissaranaihim padivajjasu Vaubhui vva ॥ 408 ॥ ( 1956)
[ भूतेन्द्रियातिरिक्तस्य चेतना स च द्रव्यतो नित्यः ।
जातिस्मरणादिभिः प्रतिपद्यस्व वायुभूतिरिव ।। ४०८ ॥ (१९५६ ) Bhūtendriyatiriktasya cetanā sa ca dravyato nityaḥ | Jatismaranadibhih pratipadyasva Vayubhutiriva in 408 ॥ ( 1956)]
___ Trans.-408 Consciousness belongs to ( the soul) which is distinguished from elements, as well as, sense-organs. Like Vayubhūti, know it for certain, therefore, that it is more perpetual than dravya by virtue of its ( power of) remembering the former birth etc. ( 1956 )
टीका-इह भूतेन्द्रियातिरिक्तस्य पूर्वाभिहितानुमानादिप्रमाणसिद्धस्यात्मन एव संबन्धिनी चेतना मन्तव्या, न भूतधर्मः। स चात्मा जातिस्मरणादिहेतुर्द्रव्यतो नित्य इति वायुभूतिरिव प्रतिपद्यस्व । अतो नैकान्तानित्यत्वपक्षोक्तो दोषः, पर्यायत एवाऽस्यानित्यत्वादिति भावः ॥४०८॥ (१९५६)
D. C.-Cetanā is not the property of bhūtas, but it is the property of Soul, which is different from bhūtas, as well as,
