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CHAPTER VII
बुद्धिशब्दप्रमाणत्वं बाह्यार्थे सति नासति । सत्यानृतव्यवस्थैवं युज्यतेऽर्थापत्यनाप्तिषु ॥87॥
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buddhi-sabda-pramāṇatvaṁ bāhyārthe sati nāsati, satyānṛta-vyavasthaivaṁ yujyate'arthāptyanaptiṣu.
87. The correctness of the apprehension and word happens when there is external object; otherwise not. The establishment of truth and falsity is appropriate when an object is got or not.
COMMENTARY
Pramāņa or fallacy can only happen when there are external objects. A word or knowledge proceeding from it results in getting a desired object, when there is such an external object. When there is no such object, it cannot be attained.
This lays down a view which is opposed to the doctrine of Mimāmsā philosophy, the cardinal doctrine of which is the intrinsic validity of apprehension. The Jaina view is that words become true only when it leads to external objects meant by it and are false when there are no such objects. When mother-of-pearl is mistaken for silver, or in the dream-state the cognitions are erroneous having no real external object corresponding to the same.
End of Chapter VII.
