Karma Mimansa

Author(s): Berriedale Keith
Publisher: Berriedale Keith

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KARMA-MIMAMSA
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ark of the class (akrti), all at once, ** -again, insists on negative determination
*** * that it is impossible to determine is remem Sievietes nature of anything, and that all that on the selt
* a series of negations, a view which to follow a great length, insisting that the doctrine Talid, unt*
Sssibility of distinguishing between any instance, both the cow and the horse
elephant, and could never deal with the tenets p ation being necessarily general. The
** bus accepts the existence of negative
Pepe Je all identical, since he cannot rely, testimony sa loob sositive means of discrimination between admitting In the cele domek
en laim that words denote individuals, as fore the 73
33) in the view of Prabhakara, is that, In the case
See injunctions, Vedic or profane, would by defects
number and gender would be out of bum precis
nouns; there could be no words to assured of
agreemeot between noun and adjective not exist.
Prabhākara replies by insisting that, positively £"*
Bhäsya, if words had individual they posst. Ace as, “ One should pile the fire altar merely in
would be meaningless, as it cannot which migy
a n injunction was intended to refer The V
o bile its plain meaning is a reference the Mimărireito
Without this element of generality all of its claim
and the necessary individual reference validity :)). "
Birl !:'ough the generality, with beings, tu !
1. Kumärila adds that this of persoi
thu l' that the word "cow," as ..
***cat .ct suport + us an individual cow, 1..1000 :1. im La l a .ted by words, a generic isu!
c TX-L . and even if possible farr.." - M. ..
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." of all the peculiarities 'The, 34
E hinsur. igain, the word cannot r **1
i bs, inc. 11 would mean that the 1: W. of Frilu un
Vii: der Bjari, pp. 303-8; contrast act":1:11 in the h
i lt :S. ' ya Tracts, pp. 1-19).