Tattva Sangraha Vol 2

SR No.: 007609
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamlashila, Ganganatha Jha
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1939
Total Pages: 887
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 84 MB

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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XXIV.
disorder ;--the Voda, not being the work of a human being, is free from the contact of Love, Hatred and such other causes of falsity; hence this is a Reason (for Reliability) based upon the nature of the thing concerned.
By putting forward a Corroborating Instance per dissimilarity, the Arguer indicates the absence of Inconclusiveness in his Reason- It is only words, ele, etc.- What is shown by this is that the absence of the Probandum is invariably concomitant with the absence of the Probans. As a matter of fact, Defects in the source of knowledge) are the cause of falsity; and wherever these Defects are present, there alone they bring about their Effect in the shape of falsity --not anywhere else ; and that is so because when the Cause is not there, the Effect cannot be there ; even if the Effect were there it would have to be regarded as without cause; and what would come about without the cause would not be regarded as the effect of that cause ; as that would lead to absurdity. Thus, the impossibility of the relation of Cause and Effect between Defects and Falsity, and the contingency of falsity being without cause, --constitute the Reason setting aside any conclusion contrary to the one set forth above. Hence the Reason cannot be regarded as Inconclusive!
The argument may be formulated as follows:- Where the cause of a thing does not exist, the Effect cannot appear,-0.g. Smoke does not appear in water, where its cause, Fire, is absent ;-in the case of the Veda, the Cause of falsity in the shape of the presence of Love, Hate, etc. is not present ; -hence its Effect, Falsity cannot be there.-(2086)
In the following text, the Mimamsaka shows that his Reason is not open to the charge of being 'Inadmissible':
TEXT (2087).
"IN THE CASE OF THE ASSERTION OF HUMAN BEINGS, IT IS ALWAYS OPEN
TO DOUBT WHETHER OR NOT THERE ARE DEFECTS (IN THE SPEAKER); . IN THE CASE OF THE REVEALED WORD, HOWEVER, AS
THERE IS NO speaker, WE CAN HAVE NO SUS. PICION OF THERE BEING ANY DEFECTS."
-(2087)
COMMENTARY
As a matter of fact, Defects reside in human beings only, as they are their property; how then could they be there where their substratum is absent? If they could be there, they would be there without a substratum (baseless); in fact it is the very nature of the subsistent thing that it should follow in the wake of its substratum ; and Man--the doer, the compiler,