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
[Footnote 165: "Particularity" (whence the name Vaiśeshika) is not
"individuality, as of this particular flash of lightning,"--but it is
the individuality either of those eternal substances which, being
single, have no genus, as ether, time, and space; or of the different
atomic minds; or of the atoms of the four remaining substances, earth,
water, fire, and air, these atoms being supposed to be the _ne plus
ultra_, and as they have no parts, they are what they are by their own
indivisible nature. Ballantyne translated _viśesha_ as "ultimate
difference." I am not sure whether the individual soul has _viśesha_.]
[Footnote 166: Mutual non-existence (_anyonyábháva_) exists between
two notions which have no property in common, as a "pot is not cloth;"
but the genus is the same in two pots, both alike being pots.]
[Footnote 167: "_Samaváyasambandábhávát samaváyo na játiḥ_," Siddh.
Mukt. (_Saṃyoga_ being a _guṇa_ has _guṇatva_ existing in it with
intimate relation).]
[Footnote 168: The feel or touch of earth is said to be "neither hot
nor cold, and its colour, taste, smell, and touch are changed by union
with fire" (Bháshá-parichchheda, _sl._ 103, 104).]
[Footnote 169: The organ of touch is an aërial
integument.--_Colebrooke._]
[Footnote 170: Sound is twofold,--"produced from contact," as the
_first_ sound, and "produced from sound," as the _second_. _Janya_ is
added to exclude God's knowledge, while _saṃyogájanya_ excludes the
soul's, which is produced by contact, as of the soul and mind, mind
and the senses, &c.]
[Footnote 171: The mediate cause itself is the conjunction of time
with some body, &c., existing in time,--this latter is the intimate
cause, while the knowledge of the revolutions of the sun is the
instrumental cause. In p. 106, line 12, read _adhikaraṇaṃ_.]
[Footnote 172: _Paratva_ being of two kinds, _daiśika_ and _kálika_.]
[Footnote 173: Time, space, and mind have no special qualities; the
last, however, is not pervading but atomic.]
[Footnote 174: The three other _padárthas_, beside soul, which are
_amúrtta_,--time, ether, and space,--are not genera.]
[Footnote 175: All numbers, from duality upwards, are artificial,
_i.e._, they are made by our minds; unity alone exists in things
themselves--each being _one_; and they only become two, &c., by our
choosing to regard them so, and thus joining them in thought.]
[Footnote 176: _Saṃskára_ is here the idea conceived by the
mind--created, in fact, by its own energies out of the material
previously supplied to it by the senses and the internal organ or
mind. (Cf. the tables in p. 153.)]
[Footnote 177: Here and elsewhere I omit the metrical summary of the
original, as it adds nothing new to the previous prose.]
[Footnote 178: Every cause must be either _jñápaka_ or _janaka_;
_apekshábuddhi_, not being the former, must be the latter.]
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