The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha: Or, Review of the Different Systems of Hindu PhilosophyMadhava
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The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha: Or, Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy
Madhava
Philosophy, Hindu; Philosophy, Indic
"Action" is fivefold, according to the distinction of throwing
upwards, throwing downwards, contracting, expanding, and going:
revolution, evacuating, &c., being included under "going." The genus
of throwing upwards, &c., will be their respective definitions. The
genus of throwing upwards is a subordinate genus to action; it exists
with intimate relation, and is to be known as the mediate cause of
conjunction with a higher place. In the same manner are to be made the
definitions of throwing downwards, &c. Generality (or genus) is
twofold, extensive and non-extensive; existence is extensive as found
with intimate connection in substance and quality, or in quality and
action; substance, &c., are non-extensive. The definition of
generality has been given before. Particularity and intimate relation
cannot be divided,--in the former case in consequence of the infinite
number of separate particularities, in the latter from intimate
relation being but one; their definitions have been given before.
There is a popular proverb--
"Duality, change produced by baking, and disjunction produced by
disjunction,--he whose mind vacillates not in these three is the true
Vaiśeshika;" and therefore we will now show the manner of the
production of duality, &c.
There is here first the contact of the organ of sense with the object;
thence there arises the knowledge of the genus unity; then the
distinguishing perception _apekshábuddhi_ [by which we apprehend "this
is one," "this is one," &c.]; then the production of duality, _dvitva_
(in the object);[175] then the knowledge of the abstract genus of
duality (_dvitvatva_); then the knowledge of the quality duality as it
exists in the two things; then imagination[176] (_saṃskára_).[177]
But it may here be asked what is the proof of duality, &c., being thus
produced from _apekshábuddhi_? The great doctor (Udayana) maintained
that _apekshábuddhi_ must be the producer of duality, &c., because
duality is never found separated from it, while, at the same time, we
cannot hold _apekshábuddhi_ as the cause only of its being known [and
therefore it follows that it must be the cause of its being
produced[178]], just as contact is with regard to sound. We, however,
maintain the same opinion by a different argument; duality, &c.,
cannot be held to be made known (_jñápya_) by that non-eternal
apprehension whose object is two or more individual unities (_i.e._,
_apekshábuddhi_), because these are qualities which reside in a
plurality of subjects [and not in any one individual[179]] just as
"severalty" does [and, therefore, as _apekshábuddhi_ is not their
_jñápaka_, it must be their _janaka_].
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