Sambodhi 2002 Vol 25

Author(s): Jitendra B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

Page 88

Vol. XXV, 2002
VERSES RELATING TO SVABHÄVAVĀDA : A COLLECTION
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14. Certain objects exist forever, some objects never exist, some others are
varied. Here natural development is the determinant.
(Do) 15. The propounders of the doctrine of natural development describe the
origination of things as being independent of all causes. They do not declare even the thing itself to be its own cause.
(Trans. Ganganatha Jha) 16. Who makes the diversity in the lotus and its filaments, etc. ? By whom,
too, have the variegated wings of the peacock and such things been created ?
(DO) 17.
Just as sharpness and other properties of the thorn and other things must be regarded as without cause, on the ground of their appearing at certain times only, so also must pain and other (internal) matters be regarded as without cause.
(Do) 18. Without inherent nature, there is no conception, boyhood and (the
understanding of) what is beneficial, etc. (i. e., manhood). It (sc. inherent nature) is the cause of whatever is born in this world.
(Trans. mine) 19. All entities exist in their own being and cease to exist due to their
inherent nature, irrespective of (free) will.
(Do) 20. Without this inherent nature even mudga (a kind of bean) cannot be
cooked, just as notwithstanding the presence of all other necessary elements like) time, etc. aśvamāsa (?) is not (cooked).
(Do). 21. Acceptance of an effect even in the absence of inherent nature (as the
cause) makes way for an undesired conclusion. Then it will not be reasonable to say that the pot is made of earth, (but) not the cloth.
(Do) 22. Who colours wonderfully the peacocks, or who makes the cuckoos coo so
well ? There is in respect of these things) no cause other than nature. (Do)