Book Title: Tattva Sangraha Vol 1
Author(s): Kamlashila, Ganganatha Jha
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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________________ 552 TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XVI. unlike things, become diversified; it is not the things that are diversified. For instance, the Dhava and other trees do not become unified in the form of the Universal Tree'; nor do they become diversified, in parts, in the form of the momentary individual trees; all that varies is the conceptual content. This has been thus declared Things by themselves do not become either aggregated or diversified, in reality ; that their form is one or many is due to the fluctuations of the Cognition :-1048-1049) It has been argued above (under Text 932) that-"No one can be able to conceive, in regard to the Cow, the unknown similarity in the object of A poha, etc. etc." The answer to this is as follows: TEXT (1050). EVEN THOUGA THERE IS NO COMMON PROPERTY, YET what are excluded AND WHAT ARE CONTAINED IN THE Exclusion ARE APPREHENDED AS DIFFERENT, BY REASON OF THEIR APPEARING AS DIVERSE IN THE SUBSEQUENT DETERMINATE JUDGMENT.-(1050) COMMENTARY The compound 'apohyâpohagocharāḥ' is made up of the apohya' * what are excluded i.e. (in the case of the word 'Cow") the Horse and other animals, -and the apohagochara', 'what are contained in the exclusion', - i.e. the Variegated and other Cows; these are so spoken of as the 'exclusion of the non.Cow' pertains to them. Thus, though there is no concomitance of any commonaly, yet, those that bring about the determinate judgment of non-different things are regarded as having their similarity well known, while those that bring about the determinate judgment of diverse things, -are regarded as other wise (i.e. as having their similarity unknown). (1050) The following might be urged-" In the absence of some one Commonally, how can the things that bring about a single determinate judgment become diverse ?" The answer to this is as follows: TEXT (1051). IT WOULD BE ONLY A FEW THINGS WHICH, WHILE BEING DIVERSE BY THEMSELVES, WOULD BRING ABOUT A SINGLE DETERMINATE JUDGMENT; AS ALREADY EXPLAINED BY US.-(1051) COMMENTARY It has been explained in course of our examination of the Universal that the Dhätri (Amalaki and other fruits), without commonalty, come to

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