Some Remarks on the Analysis of the Sensuous cognition Process

Author(s): Piotr Balcerowicz
Publisher: Z_Parshvanath_Vidyapith_Swarna_Jayanti_Granth_012051.pdf

Page 3

Some Remarks on the Analysis of the Sensuous Cognition Process
45
Besides, the author of the Bhāsya 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 (dhāranā) 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.
References
1. T. S., I. 14. 2. or 'avāya' which is rather a form of 'apāya' inherited form Prākrt. 3. The authorship of T. S. Bh. ascribed to Umāsvāti is still questionable; vide
BRONKHORST, Chronology of the Tattvārtha-sūtra, Wiener zietschrift,
BAND XXIX, 1986. 4. Vide Kale, 777ff. 5. See also 'Laghusiddhāntakaumudi', 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-vicāraņādhya
vasāyapanod 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 apāya 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.
12. J. T. Bh., 1/7/15; asadbhūtārtha-visesa-vyatirekāvadharanam apāyan,
sadbhūtārtha-višeşāvadhāraṇam ca dhāranā. 13. T. S. Bh., I. 15; dhāranā pratipattir avadhāranam avasthānam niscaye vāgamah
avabodha ityanarthāntaram.