Tattva Sangraha Vol 2

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

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OTHER FORMS AND MEANS OF KNOWLEDGE
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The qualifying term is in a thing of another kind ', because the presence of all common features in things of the same kind is not regarded as similarity--(1533)
The following Text shows the real form of Analogical Cognition (according to Shabara)
TEXT (1534).
* UNDER THE SAID CIRCUMSTANCES, THE COGNITION THAT APPEARS IN THE FORM, THE COW IS SIMILAR TO this animal', IS WHAT IS
CALLED Analogical Cognition."-(1534)
COMMENTARY.
*The Cow is similar to this animal that is now seen by me ', -this cogni. tion appears in regard to the Cow which is not before the observer (not within reach of his senses) ;-and this cognition is what is called ' Analogical Cognition', which thus is a Means or Form of Cognition.
The following Text shows the object that is apprehended by the said Analogical Cognition :
TEXT (1535).
"THUS THAT WHICH IS remembered, AND WHICH IS QUALIFIED BY THE (PERCEIVED) SIMILARITY, IS THE OBJECT THAT IS APPREHENDED BY Analogical Cognition. OR, THE OBJECT OF THE SAID
COGNITION MAY CONSIST OF THE Similarity ITSELF AS SUBSISTING IN THAT (REMEMBERED) THING."-[Shlo. Va.
Upamāna, 37.]-(1535)
COMMENTARY.
Because Analogical Cognition is as described above, therefore the Cow that is remembered and which is qualified by the similarity of the Gavaya (seen) is the object apprehended by that Cognition.-Or it may be the Simi. larity itself as subsisting in the Cow.-(1535)
Objection - Similarity is cognised by Sense-perception, the Cow also becomes the object of Remembrance ;--what then is left to be known, apprehending which, Analogy would become the Means of Cognition'?
Answer: