Tattva Sangraha Vol 1

SR No.: 007608
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamlashila, Ganganatha Jha
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1937
Total Pages: 753
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 42 MB

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TATTVASANGRAHA; CHAPTER XVI.
As ec hypothesi, there can be no apprehension of the form of any thing external. -"Even so, what is the harın 1-In that case, it would be futile to assert that the Apoka is denoted by words; as what would become the Import of Words would be the form of the Cognition which would be a positive entity independent of all tinge of anything external. What is meant is that in this way there would be a contradiction of your own doctrine-by this Proposition of yours.-(920)
The same idea is further explained
TEXT (921).
" IN THAT CASE, THE FORM OF THE COGNITION, WHICH IS POSITED AS THE IMPORT OF WORDS, WOULD BE THE Universal."
[Ibid. 38)—(921)
COMMENTARY
That is to say, the form of the Cognition itself, in the form of the positive entity, Universal',-would be the Import of Words.-(921)
The following might be urged- Even without a substratum in the external world), the cognition in question would appear in the form of the * exclusion of the heterogeneous Cow, etc.'; hence the postulation of the dpoka' is quite right.
This is answered in the following
TEXT (922).
"AS A MATTER OF FACT, WHENEVER THE SAID COGNITION APPEARS IN CONNECTION WITH THE IMPORT OF WORDS, IT IS ALWAYS IN THE FORM OJ A POSITIVE ENTITY; HENCE IN SUCH CASES, THE IMPORT COULD BE ASSUMED TO CONSIST OF
THE POSITIVE ENTITY ONLY,-A COGNITION Not OF THE NATURE OF
Apoha'."-[Ibid. 391—(922)
COMMENTARY Vastrerupa'; the form of a positive entity.
The said cognition', i.e. the cognition the Horse, without a real substratum in the external world.
* In connection with the Import of Words', -as relating to the Horse and other things conceived of.
To consist of a positive entity in the shape of the Idea embracing the notion of the Horse and other non-cows.