Tattva Sangraha Vol 2

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

Page 35

CHAPTER XIX.
Section (B).
Analogical Cognition.
COMMENTARY With regard to Analogical Cognition, the Author declares as follows:
TEXTS (1526-1527).
"WHAT SORT OF AN ANIMAL IS THE Gavaya?'-ON BEING THUS QUESTIONED BY PEOPLE LIVING IN THE CITY, THE FORESTER MAKES THE STATEMENT AS THE Cow SO IS THE Gataya'; IT IS THIS THAT IS KNOWN AS Upamāna (ANALOGY).-ACCORDING TO SHABARA'S VIEW HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT OUTSIDE THE SCOPE or Word' (VERBAL STATEMENT), HENCE IT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED IN ANOTHER WAY. [Shlo. Va.-Upamana, 1-2.)
(1526-1527)
COMMENTARY.
On being asked-'What sort of an animal is the Glavaya ?'The man makes the statement the Gavaya is like the Cow'; it is this Verbal Statement that is known as Upamāna', 'Analogy, among the older Naiyāyikas [e.g. Vätsyayana, in his Nyayabhäsya on Sü. 1. 1. 6).
According to Shabara's view, as stated in his Bhüsya (on Mi. Sa. 1. 1. 5), the cognition brought about by the said statement would be included under
Verbal Cognition, and hence the Means of such a Cognition could not be regarded as a distinct Means of Cognition (apart from the Word); with this in view Analogy has been described by him in a different manner; he says
Upamäng—that is, Similitude, also brings about the cognition of things not in contact with the sonses ; for instance, the sight of the Gavaya brings about the remembrance of the Cow'.-(1526-1527)
This (Shabara's) view the author proceeds to expound in the following
* On the exact meaning of this passage in the Shabarabhāşya, there is a difference of opinion among the Mimamsakas themselves. According to the Rjuvimala, the meaning of the words of the Bhilya is that the sight of the Gavaya brings about the Analogical Cognition, that the animal seen is called . Gavaya', to the man who, on seeing the Garaya, has remembered the Cow-This is the same as the view of Vatay yana, which has been controverted in the Shlokavārtika, the meaning according to which has been adopted in the translation above.