Tattva Sangraha Vol 1

Author(s): Kamlashila, Ganganatha Jha
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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DOCTRINE OF PRIMORDIAL MATTER
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In support of the second reason set forth (as above, in Sankhyakūrili. 9, "Because there is always recourse to the Cause"), the following argument has been put forward (by the Sārkhya)
TEXT (9)
"HOW IS IT THAT PEOPLE HAVE RECOCRSE TO ONLY SPECIFIC CAUSES, IN THE SHAPE OF SUCH DIVERSE THINGS AS THE PADDY-SEED AND THE LIKE, AND NOT ANY OTHER,-EVEN THOUGH THE NONEXISTENCE (OP THE DESIRED EFFECT OR PRODUCT)
IS EQUAL (EVERYWHERE)?"
COMMENTARY.
"If the Effect were non-existent, then people would not have had rucourse to only specific causes (productive of particular Products). For instance, when a man wants paddy-grains, he takes up paddy-seeds, not Kodravaseeds; when a man, thinking of feeding Brāhmanas the noxt day, wislies to have eurds ready for the purpose, he secures a supply of milk, not water. As regards the 'non-existence of the Paddy-grain or the Curd, this 'non-existence' (according to the Opponent) is there as much in the Paddy-seed as in the Kolraxx-Heed (and as ich in milk as in water); then how is it that though the non-existence of the Paddy-grain and other products is equal everywhere in the Paddy-seed as well as in other seeds), yet it is only the specific seeds that are secured; the persons wanting the paddy-grain could secure the Kodrars and other seeds also inasmich as the Paddy-grain would be as non-existent in these latter ns in the Paddy seedis.- If it be urged that those other seeds are not secured by people because the desired grain is not there in them, then, in that case, the person wanting paddygrain also should not secure the Paddy-seed, as the desirod grain is not there also (according to the Opponent).—exactly as in the Kodrava-seed. But this is what never happens. Hence it follows that the particular Effect (Paddy-grain) is actually present in the particnlar Canse (Paddy-seed)." -(9)
In support of the third reason (set forth in Sarikhyakārikā, 9, “because all things are nol possible'), the following explanation is provided :
TEXT (10).
"EVERYTHING LIKELY TO BE PRODUCED WOULD BE PRODUCED FROM EVERYTHING, BECAUSE THE NEGATION OF CO-ESSENTIALITY IS
EQUALLY PRESENT IN EVERYTHING."-(10)
COMMENTARY. "If it is your view that the Effect that is produced has been non-existent (before production), then, under that view, every product, in the shape