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as darśana, while the latter stages of avaya and dhāraņā as jñana. The identification of darśana with avagraha and tha, as the present view proposes, puts down the objection raised above. But, this would either upset the theory of the four stages of matijñāna or reject the separate existence of darśana.1
(7) Darśana as the first stage of Distant-senses: Siddhasena Divakara2 holds that darśana is the first apprehension of things cognized by the distant senses. According to this view darśanais confined to two senses only, i. e. the sight and the mind. The four touch-senses do not come in this category. The terms caksur-darśana and acakṣur-darśana are confined here, to the visual and mental cognitions respectively. The mental cognition here does not include inference etc. in it. It is confined to conceptual judgments only, just as the existence of atoms. This view brings darśana at par with vyañjanavagraha. The stage ascribed to vyañjanāvagaraha in the case of touch-senses, is allotted to darśana in the case of other senses.
(8) Darsana as identical with Vyañjanāvagraha: Brahmadeva3 states contiguity as the definition of darśana; but, he does not exclude the touch-senses from this category. In his case the scope of vyañjanavagraha is identical with darśana.
(9) Darsana as Arthāvagraha: Siddhasena Divakara1 refers to another view, which holds that arthavagraha is darśana, while the subsequent stages are jñāna. We have already discussed this view in the name of Yasovijaya.
According to Brahmadeva the cognition of colour, taste etc. in a general way is darśana while that of its division, yellow, white etc., is jñana. This conception also amounts to the same view as expressed above.
1. Viseṣāvaśyaka Bhāṣya G. 536
2. Sanmatitarka II. 21.
3. Bṛhaddravyasangraha p. 81
4. Sanmatitarka II. 22.
5. Bṛhaddravyasangraha p. 88
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