Tattva Sangraha Vol 1

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

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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER IL.
TEXT (57).
BECAUSE BOTH THE FACTS THAT HAVE BEEN ASSUMED (AND PUT FORWARD) ARE SUCH AS ARE NOT ACTUALLY APPREHENDED; AND FOR THE SAME REASON THE CORROBORATIVE INSTANCE ALSO THAT HAS BEEN CITED HAS NO CONNECTION WITH THE
PROBANS CITED.—(57)
COMMENTARY.
In brief, the Author for the present states his reason only in the form of Non-apprehension, which annus the Naiyāyika's argument,-a detailed objection to these two arguments will be provided under the Chapters (10-15) dealing with the Six Categories.
Both the facts.i.e. that have been put forward as the Arrangement' and the Composite'.- [Both of these are not apprehended) because the
Arrangement' has been regarded as something visible, in such statements (by the Naiyāyika) as Number, Dimension, Separateness, Conjunction, Disjunction, Higher Universal, the Lower Universal and Action are visible, as inhering in coloured substances. The Composite also has been regarded as visible, in the statement- There is perception of it because it is large, is made up of several component substances and is coloured'. -As a matter of fact however, apart from Colou, etc., no other.Conjunction or. Composite' -such as is accepted by the Naiyāyika.-ever appears in Consciousness. Thus, while fulfilling the conditions of perceptibility', if it is not perceived, it must be regarded as non-existent, like the Hare's Horns':-It will not be right to argue that" inasmuch as Atoms are beyond the reach of the Senses, (if there were no such thing as the Composite composed of the Atoms), the perception of Colour and other qualities would be impossible"; -because it is admitted that qualified Atoms are apprehensible by the Senses, and hence they are not beyond the reach of the Senses ', -Thus then, both Conjunction and Composite' being non-existent, the Jar that has been cited as the Corroborative Instance per similarity is found to be devoid of that character which has been set up as the Probans; this is what is meant by the Text in the words 'Tas no connection with the Probans, etc.-(57)
It has thus been shown that the Probans is essentially unproven and Inadmissible, on the ground of the qualification and the qualified being "unknown': the following Text proceeds to show that it is unproven' also on the ground of the unproven (unknown) character of part of its substratum :