Tattva Sangraha Vol 1

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

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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER I.
TEXT (13)
"THUS THE EFFECT BEING IMPOSSIBLE, WHAT WOULD THAT BE BY PRODUCING WHICH ANYTHING WOULD BE A CAUSE? AS A CONSEQUENCE, IT CANNOT BE POSSIBLE TO ADMIT THE CAUSAL CHARACTER OF EVEN SUCH THINGS AS THE SEED AND THE
LIKE."-(13)
COMMENTARY.
Thus, ie, in accordance with the reason explained in the preceding text; or on account of the four Reasons slated above (by the Särilehya), the Effect being absolutely impossible, under the theory that the Effect is non-existent (prior to its production);-what would that be by producing vich, the Seed and other things would be a CauseHence it would be possible to assert that the Seed and other such things cannot be Causes, because their effect is non-existent, like the Sky-Lotits. And yet such an assertion is impos. sible. Hence it becomes established that the contrary view is the right one, that the Effect exists even prior to its actual production.-(13)
The following argument might be urged (against the Sarkiya)—" It may bo token as established that the Effect is ecistent; but low is it proved that all the diverse Products emanate from Primordial Matter itself ? "
The answer to this is provided in the following
TEXT (14) "ALL THAT IS Manifest IS CLEARLY KNOWN TO BE HOMOGENEOUS WITH PLEASURE AND THE REST, TROM THE FACT OF THE EFvEor BEING FOUND TO BE THE PRODUOT OF SATISFACTION,
IRRITATION AND DEJECTION, ETC."-(14)
COMMENTARY.
As proofs of the existence of Primordial Matter, the following five affirmative arguments have been set forth by the other philosophers (Sankhyas), detailed as below in Särikhyakārika, 15-16) (1) Because the various Products are finite,-(2) because they are homogeneous,-(3) because activity is due to efficiency (potency), (4) because there is distinction between Cause and Effect,-and (5) because there is merging of the entire world {of effects),-therefore the Unmanifest (Primordial Matter) exists'.-The meaning of this is as follows:
(1) Primordial Matter exists, because the various Products are finite. In this world it has been seen that a thing that has a producer is always finite; for instance, the Potter takes up earth-clods which are finite and produces the Jar, which again is finite containing a seer or two seers and a half (of water); the 'Manifest' consisting of Cosmic Intelligence and the rest, is found to be finite, Cosmic Intelligence being only one, the I-principle being