Studies in Indian Philosophy

Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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would be proved. But Vādi-Devasūri feels that all this is wishful thinking, for the fact of reaching another place is directly known by perception in the case of chāyā and so does not require any proof by means of inference. If by its being established as a substance its reaching another place is established, then the above-mentioned fault would be there. But chāyā is proved to have movement because it reaches another place, and on the basis of its movement it is proved to be a substance; and one must bear in mind that chāyā's change of place is known by perception—it is something visible.
Moreover, since it has qualities, chāyā is a substance, like jar. And it cannot be said that it does not have qualities for we have the apprehension 'dark shade (chāyā) and the like. (Some lines are missing here. The argument here seems to be that chāyā has the quality of touch which the opponent does not accept).
It may be contended that we do not feel any touch of chāyā however much we may stretch our arms in each direction. But_bas anyone apprehended the touch of light ? It may be argued that bald men moving about at midday have too much of the experence of the hot touch of aloka (heat, light). But do not the travellers whose bodies are tormented by the cluster of rays of the sun constantly falling on them and who come with great hopes to a mango grove pleasant with dense clusters of leaves, experience very well the cool touch of chāyā (shade) ? If it is argued that chāyā appears as cool because of the superimposition of the cool touch of drops of water penetrating it, being carried thither by waves or currents of the wind, then could it not be similarly said that the experience of hot touch in the cluster of rays of the sun is because of the superimposition of the hot touch of the atoms of the submarine fire which have penetrated being carried there by the wind ? It may again be argued that even in a windless place we have the same experience of hot touch so it is known for certain that it is the hot touch of sunlight only. But it can be similarly argued that in a place where