Tattva Sangraha Vol 1

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

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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER II.
Prashastamali argues as follows:-"All the usages of men, at the beginning of creation mist hoxe been preceded by (dependent upon) the teaching of other persons,-because later on, the usage of enlightened mer is found to be restricted to particular things.-as for instance, in the case of little boys who have not yet learnt the use of words, it is found that their usage of words as restricted to particular things is always preceded (and brought about) by the teaching of their mother or other persons;--the phrase "the usages of onlightened men are restricted to particular things' means that the usage of men after enlightenment is found to be so restricted ;-that person to whose teaching usages at the beginning of Creation are due is God, whose superior knowledge does not disappear even at the time of Universal Dissolution",
It is this view that is shown as fully established, -by the Author in the following Text:
TEXT (51).
" AT THE BEGINNING OF CREATION, USAGE AMONG MEN MUST HAVE BEEN DUE TO THE TEACHING OF OTHER PERSONS WHEN THEY BECOME SUBSEQUENTLY AWAKENED TO CONSCIOUSNESS, IT IS FOUND TO BE RESTRICTED TO PARTICULAR THINGS,-LIKE
THE USAGE OF LITTLE BOYS."—(51)
COMMENTARY
The term Sarga Creation, stands for generation; the beginning of this is its first moment. The rest is easily intelligible.(51)
There are other arguments also put forward by Uddyotakara ; thiesa are the following :- "The Manifested World, consisting of the Primary Elemental Substances and the rest, are productive of Pleasure and Pain, only when controlled by an intelligent Cause, -a) because it is, by itself, insentient, (6) because it is a Product, (c) because it is perishable, and (d) because it is endowed with Colour (or Form) and other qualities, like the Ase and other things".*
These are the arguments that are set forth in the following two Texts:
* This is clearly a brief paraphrase of the arguments stated by Yiddyotubara in his Nyāyavārtika, on Sutra 4. 1. 21, page 463, lines ul e seq., Biblio. Ind. Edn., where the words are very nearly the same.