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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER VII.
TEXTS (307-310).
THE VACT OF THE EYE ETO. BEING FOR ANOTHER'S USE' IS ASSERTED
(BY THE SānIchya), ON THE GROUND OP TENIR BEING COMPOSITE THINGS, LIKE THE BED, SEAT AND SUCH THINGS.-IT IT IS MEANT BY THIS TO PROVE TILAT THEY SERVE THE PURPOSE OF SOMETHING ELSE WHICH IS CAPABLE OF HAVING ADDITIONAL PROPERTIES PRODUCED IN IT, THEN WHAT IS SOUGHT TO BE PROVEN IS ALREADY ADMITTED ; INASMUCH AS THE SAID EYE ETO. ARE ADMITTED BY US TO BE HELPFUL TO COGNITION. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF IT IS MEANT TO PROVE THAT THEY ARE HELPFUL TO SOMETHING THAT IS unmodifiable, THEN THE REASONING IS OPEN TO THE FALLACY OF THE CORROBORATIVE INSTANCE BEING DEVOM OF THE PROBANDUM; AS THE THINGS CITED AS THE INSTANCES ARE ALSO HELPFUL ONLY TO WHAT IS MOBILE (PERISHABLE).- LASTLY, IF WHAT IS MEANT TO BE PROYED IS MERELY THE VAGUE GINERAL FACT OF THEIR BEING HELTFUL TO
ANOTHER'; --EVEN SO, THE REASON WOULD BE SUPERFLUOUS ; AS THEY ARE ALREADY ADMITTED TO BE HELPFUL TO THE MIND. (307-310)
COMMENTARY
The 'another that is meant,-(a) is it one capable of having additional properties produced in it 1-or (b) one incapable of having such additional properties produced, and hence unmodifiable 1-or (c) what is meant to be proved is the mere vague fact of being for another's purpose', which is pleasing enough so long as it is not examined — These are the three alternatives possible.
Under the first alternative (a), the reasoning proves what is already admitted ; as we also admit that the Eye etc. are helpful to Cognition; as is clear from the statement that That Cognition which originates from the Eye and the Colours is Visual Perception, and that Cognition which originates from the whole body and the touchable things is Bodily (Tactile) perception.'
Under the second alternative (b), the Reason is contradictory'; this is what is shown in the text 309. If the Eye, eto, aro meant to be proved as helpful to something that is unmodifiable (eternal), then as the Reason is found, in the instance cited, to be concomitant with the contrary of the Probandum, it becomes 'Contradictory'; because the Bed and other things (cited as instances) are actually found to be helpful to what is mobile, i.e., non-eternal : in as much as it is impossible to add to the properties of what is unmodifiable.
(c) Lastly if these alternatives are excluded, and what is meant to be proved is merely the vague general fact of being for another's purpose even so it would be proving what is already admitted; as the Eye and the rest are actually admitted (by us) to be helpful to the Mind. If the Mind
