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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found to be imbued with such qualities as non-eternality', 'multiplicity and the like-its Cause also has to be inferred as possessed of these same qualities. Specially because in the case of a Cause that is eternal, the idea of its fruitful operations being both sequential and simultaneous would involve self-contradiction and because diversity in the Effect can be only due to diversity in the Cause; otherwise the diversity in the Effect would be without any Cause (baseless),-From all this it follows that any such single eternal Entity as Primordial Matter cannot be recognised.- If the name Primordial Matter is given to a Cause that is non-eternal and many, then there we have no quarrel with you.--(41)
Question-"How is it known that the Manifest is not imbued with any single generic character ?"
The answer is supplied in the following:
TEXT (42) ALL MANIFESTED THINGS' ARE FOUND TO BE LIKE IRON-BARS: AS HAVING THEIR FORMS ASSOCIATED WITH AN ORDER OF SEQUENCE
AND THEIR ESSENCE MIXED UP WITH FANCIES.-(42)
COMMENTARY. Just as bars made of Iron stand apart from each other.-50 these Manifested Entities', as they appear in their own forms, are found to be diverse and separate, due to diversities of place, time, potencies, appearances and so forth; and they do not enter into each other's essence (or constitution). This proves the multiplicity (of Manifested Entities).
In order to prove their non.eternality, it is added-Having their forme. etc. etc. ;-the compound is to be analysed as-' have their fornus associated with-embraced, affected by-an order of senuence'
Question—"If this is so, then how is it that Entities are conceived of as units,-in the form of Earth and the like, and also as lasting in such notions as this is that same thing'?"
Answer-Their essence mixed up with fancies; that is to say, the con. ception of unity in regard to things is a fancy', a wrong assumption. This is going to be established later on, under the sections dealing with the doctrine of the ' Perpetual Flux '.-(42)
It has thus been shown that the Reason Because of Homogeneity (ne propounded by the Sankhya in support of his doctrine of all things being the product of one Primordial Matler') is open to the three fallacies of being Unproven, Inadmissible', 'Contradictory' and 'Too Wide, Inconclusive'. -The Author now proceeds to show that the corroborative instance cited (by the Sankhya in Text 15, above) in the words Just as in the case of the Jar and other things' deos not fulfil the conditions of, and is not possessed of the properties of the Probans and the Probandum [and as such cannot serve as a corroborative instance']