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Some Remarks on the Analysis of the Sensuous Cognition Process
Besides, the author of the Bhāṣya can be reckoned a supporter of an opinion considering, on the one hand, the perceptual judgement as a negative process excluding non-existent particulars and on the other hand, the retention (dhāraṇā) as a positive process determining the existent characteristics as well as the retaining of the resultant cognition enabling recollection, which distinguishes him from the Agamic tradition.
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References
1. T. S., I. 14.
2. or 'avaya' which is rather a form of 'apaya' inherited form Prākṛt.
3. The authorship of T. S. Bh. ascribed to Umāsvāti is still questionable; vide BRONKHORST, Chronology of the Tattvärtha-sutra, Wiener zietschrift,
BAND XXIX, 1986.
4. Vide Kale, 777ff.
5. See also 'Laghusiddhantakaumudi, No. 905, 906 and 932.
6. S. Si., 1.15.
7. Compare: N.Tatia, p. 41.
8. Vi. Bh. 185; after N.Tatia, p. 41.
9. J. T. Bh., I. (7), 15.
10. Vide N.Tatia, p. 41.
11. T. S. Bh., avagarhite visaye samyag asamyag iti guna-dosa-vicāraṇādhyavasāyapanod'pāyaḥ :
In this connection I would like to point out in order of better understanding. Another possibility of interpreting this passage according to which the opinion expressed in T.-S. Bh. might be unanimous with the Agamic conception of apaya as well as with Jinabhadra's statement concerning the nature of the perceptual judgement: "The perceptual judgement is after perceiving an object (threefold, namely ) a speculation upon and apprehension of the correctness and the inaccuracy (of our earlier hypothesis) as well as removing the uncorrect suggestions or doubts"; but such construction is rather hardly tenable.
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12. J. T. Bh., 1/7/15; asadbhūtārtha-viseṣa-vyatirekāvadharaṇam apāyaḥ, sadbhūtārtha-viseṣāvadharanam ca dharaṇā.
13. T. S. Bh., I. 15; dharana pratipattir avadharanaṁ avasthanam niscaye vägamaḥ avabodha ityanarthantaram.
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