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EXAMINATION OF THE DEFINITION OF " SENSE-PERCEPTION".
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TEXT (1345).
JUST AS, WHEN THE CUTTING WEAPON STRIKES AT THE Ichadira-TREE, THE RESULTANT Cut DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE Palasha-TRED, IN THE SAME WAY NOWHERE IN THE WORLD IS THE (CUTTING) AXE FOUND TO BD THE SAME AS THE Cut ITSHLT" (ShlokarirtikaSENSB-PERCEPTION, 75).
(1345)
COMMENTARY.
The Bauddha has addressed the following argument to the person who asserted that the Means of Cognition was different from its Fruit :-If there is difference between the Means of Cognition and its Fruit, then the objective of these two-the Means of Cognition and the Fruit of Cognition also must be different; and yet this cannot be right; when, for instance, the cutting weapon, the Axe, is struck at the Khadira-tree, the Cut does not appear in the Palasha-tree; hence it must be admitted that the objective of both is the same and hence there is no difference between them.
It is in answer to this that Kumarila says "If one who desires the objective to be the same should declare the Means of Cognition to be the same as its Fruit, then he would be setting aside the well-known distinction between Cause and Effect; just as, when the cutting weapon strikes at the Khadira-tree, the Ort does not appear in the Palāsha-tree, so also no. where in the world is the Axe found to be the same as the Cut itself" (Shlokertvirtika-Sense-perception, 74-75).
The word 'Ohhedana', Cutting weapon, stands for that by which something is cut-(1345)
The following Text supplies the answer to this argument of Kumirila's :
TEXT (1346).
THE DISTINCTION OF 'CAUSE AND EFFECT' DOES NOT REST UPON THE SUBSTRATUM OF THAT DISTINCTION; COGNITION BRING FORMLESS,
TEE SAID DISTINCTION CANNOT BE POSSIBLE.—(1346)
COMMENTARY.
The apprehension of Blue is not the apprehension of Yellow, this distinction in the cognition of things is based upon the sameness of form, nothing elke ; so that the distinction of Cause and Effect is made through the relation of what is distinguished and what distinguishes, not through the relation of the Produced and Producer; because the relation of the Acting Agent, the Instrument and the rest is not real; because all things being momentary, they cannot bave any action. When the Cognition is produced in the form
