I THE VAISESHIKA APHORISMS OP KANADA WITH COMMENTS FROM THE UPASKARA OF S~AN-KARA-MIS"RA AND THE VIVRITTI OF JAYA-NARAYANA- TARKAPANCHANANA, TRANSLATED BY ARCHIBALD EDWARD GOUGH, B. A. LATE SCHOLAR OP LINCOLN COLLEGE, AND BODEN SANSKRIT SCHOLAR, POSET AND ELLERTON HEBREW SCHOLAR, KENNICOTT HEBREW SCHOLAR, AND DENYER AND JOHNSON THEOLOGICAL SCHOLAR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD : ANGLO-SANSKRIT PROFESSOR IN THE GOVERNMENT COLLEGE, BKNARSS, N. W. P. BENARES: E. J. LAZARUS & CO. LONDON : TRUBNER & CO. 1873. PRINTED BY E. J. LAZARUS & Co., AT THE MEDICAL HALL PRESS, BENARES. PREFACE. The following pages will, it is trusted, facilitate to Sanskrit students the perusal of the original text, and to general readers an estimate, of one of the schools of Indian thought. Such interest as they may claim, will be historical, as a picture of a low stage of metaphysical cul- ture. The system must be judged from its proper place in the history of philosophy ; not hastily condemned from a modern point of view. The Indian cosmologies, imper- fect in analysis, and hasty in synthesis, may be compa- red to the pre-Socratic schemes among the Greeks. In India the Socratic reform in method has been wanting, and speculation has lapsed into a fruitless scholasticism. By these systems, however, it is that Indian thinkers are formed, and we may well remember that in mental dis- cipline "speculation is higher than speculative truth", and that where philosophers "have not realised truth, they, have always determined exertion." * The technical terms employed in translation are necessarily rather suggestive than reproductive of the original. The artificial groupings, or (to use Locke's ex- pression) mixed modes, of European and of Indian thought, intersect and overlap, rather than coincide with, one an- other. The reader should bear this in mind, that he may avoid the misleading associations of an English termi- nology. See Sir W. Ham ilton's Discussions, pp. 40-42. 20G50G4 II A brief indication of the conceptions dominant in the Vaiseshika system, may be useful to the uninitiated. These are the transition of souls from everlasting through new embodiments and new spheres of being ; therein reaping in pleasures and pains the fruits of merits and demerits ever reproduced as seed by plant and plant by seed ; the atomic aggregates which make up the object world, eter- nally disintegrated and redintegrated by the efficacy of works, with or without for it is questioned the inter- vention of a creator spirit. Thus in bondage to sensuous experience, painful at the best, the soul must wait its re- lease until, the understanding purified by good works, it attains to knowledge of the modes of being. This know- ledge disengages the soul from its appetent and active functions, and merges it in the absolute. English readers will find abundant information, for further guidance, in Colebrooke's Essays on the Religion and Philosophy of the Hindus, the Rev. K. M. Banerjea's Dialogues on Hindu Philosophy, Dr. Fitz- edward Hall's Rational Refutation of Hindi! Philoso- phy translated from the Hindi of the Rev. Nehemiah Nila-kantha, Professor Max Miiller's Essay on Indian Logic appended to Abp. Thomson's Laws of Thought, and the articles on the Vaiseshika and other Indian phi- losophies in Chambers's Eneyclopsedia. Those who read Sanskrit will find a useful epitome of the Vaiseshika doctrines in the Tattva-padartha-sara the work of an illustrious pandit of the present day, Jaya-ntirayana-tar- kapanchanana late professor of Hindu Philosophy in the Government Sanskrit College Calcutta ; the author of the Ill Vivritti from which many of the comments hi the follow- ing pages are reproduced. The translation of the Vaiseshika Aphorisms is re- printed from the 'Pandit,' a monthly publication of the Benares Sanskrit College. It was undertaken at the instance of Mr. R. T. H. Griffith, the learned principal of the Benares College, as supplementary, in however imper- fect a manner, to the text-books of the other Indian sys- tems translated by the late Dr. Jas. Ballantyne. The text followed is that of Dr. Boer and Pandit Jaya-ndrdya'na- tarkapanch^nana published in the Bibliotheca Indica. Its re-appearance is due to Dr. E. J. Lazarus, proprie- tor of the Benares Medical Hall Press, to whom Indian literature is already largely indebted for similar en- couragement. BENARES COLLEGE, } Jan. 3rd 1873. ( THE VAISESHIKA APHORISMS OF KANADA. FIRST BOOK, FIRST DAILY LESSON. INTRODUCTION.' All students who wish to shim the multi- tude of pains engendered in this world by birth, old age, death and the like, learn from revelation, tradition, the epics, the Puranas and and other sources, that the means of escaping them is investigation of the real nature of soul. Now, certain disciples who had in the prescribed manner studied the Vedas and their subordinate sciences, unenvious, and attentive hearers, in quest of knowledge reverenti- ally approached the great and holy sage Kanada. The sage full of compassion taught them the system of the ten sections. Enuncia- tion, definition, investigation [of the adequacy of definitions], such is the threefold method of this system. Division is only a particular kind of enunciation ; hence there is no addition [to be made.] Al- though description of the categories is the chief object of this trea- tise, yet from the importance of merit as the instrumental cause of real knowledge of the categories, he in the first place promises a description of that. Vivriti. ^raiHT OT au<3Jrreim: n 1 n A ph. 1. Now, then, we will explain [what] merit [is.] ( 2 ) 1 " ' Now,' means after being requested by his disciples. 1 Then/ since pupils quick in hearing &c., and unenvious have ap- proached. Or else .the word 'Now' (atha) has an auspicious sense. Thus it is said. " The syllable (Jm and the word atha, these two cleft of old the throat of Brahma and issued forth ; there- fore both are of happy omen." Upaskdra. Merit defined. *W $WT3S:*ra: * *W II 5? || sa ** Aph. 2. Merit is that from which [results] attainment of elevation and of the highest good. 2 It might be objected that because merit is net productive of any result, a description of it is useless. Hence he states its characteristic, shewing that to merit belongs the attainment of the highest object of man. Exaltation is paradise ; the highest good is emancipation ; that cause from which [results] the attainment production , of these is merit : and therefore it is fitting that merit should be explained, inasmuch as, by reason of its effecting the highest object of man which consists of paradise and libera- tion [of the soul], it is to be acquired by those who are desirous of enjoyment and of emancipation. V. 3 Exaltation is knowledge of the truth ; the highest good is final cessation of pain ; that from which both [result] is merit. The highest good is [attained] by means of exaltation. If this be arasrm ORt *J \m: ^r n WT : n ( 3 ) the meaning, the compound \abhyuday a-nihsreyasa] has an ellipse of a central member or is a Tat-purusha ablatively dependent, and merit is implied to be characterised by Cessation, [of pain] ; but if merit to be attained by practices such as devout meditation &c., and [synonymous with] the result of good actions done in a former state of being, then the compound is regular in form. U. Note. Exaltation according to the Upaskara means either knowledge of the truth (tattva-jnana) or the result of good works done in a former birth (adrishta). If it signify knowledge of the truth, the aphorism must be translated, ' That is merit from which [results] the highest good by means of exaltation.' If the result of actions done in a former life be intended by exaltation, the aphorism is to be rendered as above. 1 The attainment of paradise by merit is with visible means, while the attainment of liberation is by means of knowledge of the truth ; consequently there is a distinction. V. 2 He proceeds to remove the doubt, What proof is there of [the existence of] merit and of its being the means of attaining to knowledge of the truth &c. If you say, the Veda, we reply not so, for the authority of that is doubted, and accordingly an apho- rism of Aksha-charana says, That [Veda] is unauthoritative being vitiated by falsity, self-contradictoriness, and repetition. V. riSe Veda auth " Hf^TOWTO HTIHBTO II 3 II f Aph. 3. Authoritativeness belongs to revelation because it is a declaration of that. 3 The word that (tat} signifies God though he has not been previously mentioned, it being inferred from his being universally fsrahr: 11 z 5R VJW rlSI fTTcnffTTTk^T^STc ^ sR JTTST 33f 53 JTRr fr? Wtt r-* ) known, just as in the aphorism of Gautama, ' That is unauthorita- tive being vitiated by falsity, self-contradictoriness and repetition/ by the word ' That' the Veda is signified though not previously mentioned. Accordingly authoritativeness belongs to revelation the Veda , because it was declared by him revealed by God. Or else ' That' signifies the contiguous [word] merit, and accord- ingly authoritativeness belongs to revelation the Veda because it declares expounds merit : for whatever statement sets forth a matter of certain knowledge is an authority. U. 1 By the word ' That' expressive of something already known God is signified, though not previously mentioned. And accordingly the sense is that the authoritativeness of the Veda must necessarily be admitted since it was declared by an everlasting, all-wise, and all holy Spirit. V. II 8 II Aph. 4. The highest good [results] from knowledge of the truth which springs from particular merit [and is obtained] by means of the similarity and dissimilarity of the categories, sub- stance, attribute, action, generality, particularity, and inhesion. 1 Such knowledge of the truth depends upon the Vais*eshika system, hence even causation of the highest good belongs to that rf*QK4U TH!I*RT3T*3T3W 5I3W tTWUP BgT OfT : i ( 5 ) [system]. Between the system and the highest good the connection of relation of cause to effect, between the system and knowledge of the truth the connection of relation of agency to the agent, between the highest good and knowledge of the truth the connection of relation of effect to cause, between the categories substance &c. and the system the connection of relation of matter expounded to exposition, is understood to exist. It is from knowledge of these connections that in this world seekers of the the highest good apply themselves to this system. The highest good is final cessation of pain. Finality of cessation of pain is non-simultanei- ty with antecedent non-existence (potential existence) of pain in the common substratum, or simultaneity with subsequent non- existence (destruction) of all particular qualities of soul which are produced at the same time and have a common substratum. Or emancipation [of the soul] is potential existence of pain terminated by cessation of all particular qualities [of the soul]. In the second aphorism of Gautama it is stated that on the successive removal of pain, birth, activity, faults [i. e. desires and aversions] and false knowledge, and on their consequent non-existence emancipation ensues. Here the argument from non-existence of cause to non-exis- tence of effect proves emancipation to be characterised by antecedent non-existence of pain, for with respect to the removal of activity, consequent upon the removal of vice, the removal of birth on the removal of activity and the removal of pain on the removal of birth, such removal is not subsequent non-existence but non -prod action, err wrR: i SFOTtrra: ^^TOT t^T^ni ^RHTOIT vsra: sR^-Tra: HT g urn- ScT I ; srresr ( 6 ) and non-production is antecedent non-existence. ' From knowledge of the truth which springs from particular merit, such is the spe- cial character of that [knowledge], and accordingly particular merit is merit differentiated by finality : but if by knowledge of the truth the [VaiSeshika] system be intended (the truth being known by means of that system), then particular merit must be explained as characterised by the ordinance and grace of God, for it is a tradi- tion that the great saint Kanada revealed the system in conse- quence of having obtained the ordinance and grace of God U. 1 Particular merit is particular good works done either in this life or in a former state of existence. By special good works knowledge of the truth is produced by means of the similiarity and dissimilarity of substance and the other categories. Next meditation on the soul is produced ; next by means of meditation, a [mental] presentation of the soul is produced ; and after that, by means of destruction of false knowledge &c., emancipation ensues. In this place there is mention of six categories spoken of as existing, but in reality non-existence is also implied by the sage as another category. Accordingly there is no discrepancy in such aphorisms as the following, in the second daily lesson, ' From non-existence of cause is non-existence of effect', and in the ninth book, [' An effect has no antecedent existence] because of the non-existence of ascription to it of actions and attributes'. V. of sub- 8tance - ?!H anfai n u 11 Aph. 5. Earth, water, light, air, ether, time, space, soul, and the internal organ, are the substances. rTH ?FrT ( 7 ) 1 The particle iti is expressive of limitation, therefore the the meaning is that there are nine substances, neither more nor less. If it be objected, What is the use of the particular iti when. the exclusion of a lesser or greater number [of substances] is ef- fected by the mere force of the division ? this is to be determined, that it is because the particle iti is employed to^indicate the logical subject in the construction of the aphorism, and only in order to elucidate the purport of the division since gold &c., and God are included in this [enumeration], and since it is explained [in, V. 2, 19] that darkness, suspected [by some] of being additional, is a non-existence. The construction without the use of compound words is to shew the importance of all [the substances] ; and the author of the aphorisms himself will point out their definitions when treating of their dissimilarities. U. Note. Cp. the Muktavali on Bhasha-parichchheda 3. 8 If it be objected. There is a tenth substance, darkness ; why is it not enumerated ? for it is cognised by preception ; and substantia- lity belongs to it because it is possessed of colour and action ; and, because devoid of odour, it is not earth ; and, because it possesses dark colour, it is not water &c. ; and the eye deprived of light is the organ [used] in perceiving it. We reply that it is not so, because it is illogical to imagine another substance, when it is necessarily produced by non-existence of light. The notion that ?wr sfa HvT tTcltjm IJHH I rTBl irs*reRi?9Tfj i f i incr^gRH SWTSRT it is possessed of colour is erroneous. The notion that it possesses action is also an error occasioned by the departure of light. It will be declared how it is that gold is included in light. Darkness was affirmed to be a substance by the S^nkhyas ; gold by the Mimansakas. 1 The construction without the use of compound words is designed to sliew that all the substances independently of one another produce particular effects, or is intended to teach that they all equally produce effects which inhere in them. Among these nine divisions of substance, ether, time, and space do not form any class since they have only a single existence, but the rest form classes. V. Qualities enumer- &ted - 32IrelJT'J I riM 3153^ SI^IFl Tn&TfT II I cFTa^rTrR^Tn^W 3iHT *JT ( 15 ) shana) denotes a sign and a particular distinctive property excluding objects of the same and of different classes, according to the force of the etymology, It is discerned (lakshyate) by means of this. Accordingly by means of action it is -discerned that such and such a thing is a substance, and by the possession of qualities substance is discerned as excluded from things of the same and of different classes. The" five categories, quality &c., [quality, action, generality, particularity, and inhesion] belong to the same class by reason of the notion of existence, while non-existence is of a different class. Substance, then is different from quality &c., because it possesses qualities. That which is not different from [quality &c., does not possess qualities, as quality &c. And although there is not possession of qualities in a compound substance during its first moment, yet opposition to absolute non-existence of qualities is meant to be stated, for absolute non-existence of qualities is opposed also to antecedent and subsequent non-existence of qualities. In like manner the being a coinherent cause is a characteristic of the category sub- stance, distinguishing it from the [other] six categories. U. Characteristic o* *nu*ra*ow u cause. For in this case (were there no connexion with a cause), a thing might be or not be, but could not be from time to time, since an existing thing is not non-existent, nor does it come into existence without a cause, nor does it come into existence fortuitously, nor does it come into existence from anything unreal such as the horn of a hare, but from a really existing assignable determinant such as a staff or a loom, as is seen in effects such as a pot or a piece of cloth. Now the limit or determinant is the cause. Moreover were there no relation of cause and effect there would no activity or inactivity, for in such a case the universe would be desireless, since without a knowledge of the means of attaining that which is desired there would be no such thing as activity, and without the knowledge of the means of avoiding that which is undesired there would be no such thing as inactivity. U. Continued, ?? r? WSTqTWToTTH SRWHTOTSr: II ^ Ij. N x Aph. 2. But there is not from non-existence of effect non existence of cause. ( 24 ) 1 If there were not a restriction in the relation between cause and effect, it would follow also that if the effect should not exist, the cause would not exist. The rule is not that non-existence of effect results in non-existence of cause, but that non-existence of cause results in non-existence of effect. Therefore the practical application of this introductory section of two aphorisms is that persons desirous of emancipation are concerned in non-existence of birth for the sake of non-existence of pain, in non-existence of activity for the sake of non-existence of birth, in non-existence of faults for the sake of non-existence of activity, in the cessation of false knowledge for the sake of non-existence of faults, and in forming a mental presentation of the soul for the sake of cessation of false knowledge. U. and Aph. 3. Generality and particularity both depend upon intellection. 5 After the enunciation and definition of the first three categories he now states the definition of the category gene- rality formerly enunciated. Generality is twofold, highest and not highest. The highest is being, the not-highest is subs- tantiality &c., contained under being. The distinguishing property of generality and particularity is intellection. Extensive intellection is that of generality, exclusive intellection is that of particularity. * Generality is the highest, and particularity the not highest I Welf?T fT3T va irH5TigTrR'nrro nt fercra: wti i ?nr ( 25 ) generality. Accordingly there are two kinds of generality. That is dependent upon intellection which has intellection for its characteristic. Generality then, is twofold, highest and not highest. The highest generality is being, the not-highest generality is sub- stantiality &c. The distinguishing property of the highsst and not highest kinds of generality is intellection, the intellection of extensiveness being the characteristic of generality i. e. of high- est generality, and. the intellection of non-extensiveness the chracteristic of particularity (i. e. of not highest generality). Extensiveness is existence in many places, non-extensiveness is existence in few places. Being, therefore, is the highest, because it exists in more places than any . other universal, and the tclasses substantiality &c., are not-highest because they exist in fewer places than the notion of earth &c., so that, generality or the highest and particularity or the not highest universals are not absolute but relative to intellection. The following hindrances to universality are enumerated by the Nyaya teachers, ' Indi- visibility of the individual, identity, confusion, infinite re- gression, loss of form, and absence of connection are the aggre- gate of things preventing universality.' Thus the notion of ether is not a class because it exists only as one individual. The notions of a pitcher and a water-pot are not two universals, because there are neither more nor less individuals under either. The notions of matter and form are not one universal, because of the ( 26 ) confusion pervading the one individual by reason of two common substrata of absolute- mutual non-existerice. Generality is not a. universal, for if so there would be a regress to infinity. The notion of particularity is prevented from being a universal by loss of form,, for particularity is naturally exclusive ...... The notion of co-inhesion is not a class, because of the non-existence of connection by co-in- hesion, for from the assumption- that co-inhesion inheres in- anything else a regression to infinity would follow. V. Cp. the Muktavali on Bhasha-parichchheda, 8. ' The cha- racteristic of generality is co-inhesion in more than one, together with eternity. It is said, 'Together with eternity ,' because co-inhe- sion in more than one belongs also to conjunction &c. It is said 'In more than one,' because co-inhesion together with eternity be- longs also to ether, to extension, and the like. xistenceisuni ' 8*9- smtsrosr n w ver. Aph. 4. Existence is general, only,, for it is a cause of ex- tensive intellection. 2 Existence being [is general]' because it is a cause of ex- tensive intellection- of the notion of existing in many places, the word only (eva) excludes the notion of existence in few placea. V. ^SETrcT JHOrel 5Rltrcl5g STSTailft feiftVTTC tl U II Aph. 5. The essences of substance, quality, and. action, are general and particular. 3 The particle ' and' (eha) implies in addition the notions of earth &c., the classes contained in substance; the notions of I rT^55H rZlrr SraSRSwrlrclH I I f^RJrt efftffl I forQrQ ^fr? u : n TT: tf^ 3Ri7n?r3n?ft: ( 27 ) colour &c. the classes contained in quality ; and the notions of throwing upwards &c., the classes contained in action. U. sna^T^WT fasrcrwr: n 5 u Aph. 6. With the exception of the ultimate particulars. 1 The words general and particular [in the preceding aphorism] are to be understood with the exception of those parti- culars that are said to exist as eternal substances. According to the teachers [of this system] they are ultimate, because they exist in the end or conclusion [of the division of a compound sub- stance], and there is [then] nothing further which causes non-exten- sive conception. According to the authors of the Vritti they are ultimate because they exist at the end or conclusion of production and destruction, and are ultimate particulars because they exist in eternal substances. For those particulars only are causes of non- extensive conception, and are not at the same time general in their character. U. urn sajjmsR *n wtn n o ti Aph. 7. That is existence from which [there arises the con- viction] with respect to substances, qualities, and actions, that they are existent. * sub PR TOT II * II stance &c. Aph. 8. Existence is something different from substances, qualities, and actions. 1 It might be said, Existence is not apprehended by means ( 28 ) of its being something distinct from substance, quality, and ac- tion. Therefore existence is one or other of those three. For whatever is different from anything else is apprehended by means of its difference from it, as a water-pot [by means of its difference] from a piece of cloth, whereas existence is not apprehended by means of its difference from them. Consequently it is identical with them. For this reason [Kanada] proclaimed [the above aphorism.] substance &c., is not extensive, existence is extensive. Accordingly its difference from them may be established by the consideration of their opposite properties characterised by exten- siveness and non-extensiveness. U. Continued. TO 5? JHO: II < II Aph. 9. Existence is neither an action nor a quality, be- cause it exists in qualities and actions. 1 When it is said neither an action nor a quality the proposi- tion negatively implies that neither is it a substance. For an action does not exist in actions, nor a quality in qualities nor a substance in quality or action. But existence is in quali- ty and action. Existence, then, is different from them, for it dif- fers in property from substance, quality, and action. U. Continued. q Aph. 10. And by reason of the non-existence [in existence] of generality and particularity. * Substance &c., have been previously stated to be general and particular. Therefore from the non-existence in it of sub- stance &c., existence is not identical with substance &c. V. 5* srr gini 5^ i ETT anar TOBT swfiir srr The essence of sub- TT ^,-. if ..--. Ii yui^irrxn n QQ 11 stance not identical ^*eiTCM S<*4fCtTHH with substance &c. Aph. II. The essence of substance is explained by means of its inherence in many substances. 1 He states that the universal in substance [or substantiality] also is not identical with substance &c., [i. e. with substances, qualities, and actions]. Inherence in many substances is inferred from connexion with co-inhesion, and eternity from generality. Accordingly substantiality as well as existence, is explained to be different from substance &c., on the grounds of its co-inhesion in many substances and of its eternity. V. Continued. Aph. 12. And by reason of the non-existence [in the essence of substance] of generality and particularity. 2 If substantiality as a universal were a class identical with substance &c., the general and particular entities of earth, water, light, and the like would exist in that class. U. 3 The universal in substance in not identical with substance &c., because of the non-existence [in that essence] of the essence of substance, quality, action, earth, water, light, and the like. V. ^The notion of qua- ^ ^ HimjlBWIIffi^ (| ^ f| Aph. 13. In like manner the universal in quality is explained from its existence in qualities. 4 He explains the universal in quality. The universal in quality, TTTCT cTOT imS4luTTpHftcf jpiTrT CfaT J II : n fwr ( 30 ) like existence, is declared to be distinct from substances, quali- ties, and actions on account of its existence or co-inhesion in qua- lities only. (J. w n Aph. 14. Also by the non-existence [in it] of generality and particularity. 1 He states another distinction. If tbe universal in quality were not something over and above substances, qualities, and actions, it would then be apprehended as constituting a class con- tained under one or other of the universals, substance, quality, or action. U. The essence of ac- -^ ^^ 5^^^ c^ tion. \ -v s >. Aph. 15. The essence of action is explained from its exis- tence in actions. 2 He states the distinction of the universal in action from sub- stances, qualities, and actions. The essence of action is also explain ed, like existence, to be another class distinct from substances, qualities, and actions, on account of its existence or co-inhesion in action only. U. n IS u Aph. 16. Also by the non-existence [in it] of generality particularity. 3 If the essence of action were identical with substances &c., the generality and particularity of substances &c., would inhere *rari3T I 5CTT?5R JTTSJTrT ^: n ( 31 ) in it. It is to be understood that these tour aphorisms alike in form [viz. 10, 12, 14, 16,] are stated in one section to explain the distinction from substances, qualities, and actions, of the four universals existence, substantiality the univereal in quality and the universal in action. U. Existence is one. a: !i <*s II Aph. 17. Because of the non-particularity of the property of being, and of the non-existence of a particular property therein there is [only] one existence. 1 A conception in the form of being or the applicability of that word is the property of existence. This conception is com- mon, without distinction, in regard to substances, qualities, and actions. Hence existence or being abides in them as only one. For otherwise either being would not exist, or they would not exist, for existence is in the same number of individuals as substance &c. Because of the non-existence of a particular property : the mean- ing of this is that from the non-existence of a property or ground of inference in particularity or distinction, there is no distinction. For there is no particular property in existence, like the particular pro- perty or distinction of extension of length and shortness in the case of the inference, ' That is the selfsame lamp.' U. SECOND BOOK, FIRST DAILY LESSON. Qualities of earth. ^*ITH*reH?TO3r ?l3T II 9 II Aph. 1. Earth is possessed of colour, taste, smell and touch. SrTT 5f?TH i: w ( 32 ) 1 The colour of the earth is of many kinds, blue, yellow &c. Hence the characteristic of possessing universality contained under the universality of substance and being the general substratum of blue colour. So also there is in the earth taste of various kinds, pungent, astringent &c. Hence the characteristic of possessing a universality contained under the universal existence and being the general substratum of pungent taste. In like manner by the sub- stitution of the words ' astringent' &c., other characteristics are to be Inferred. Smell is of two kinds, fragrant and unfragrant. Hence the characteristic of possessing a universality contained under the uni- versal substantiality and being the general substratum of smell. Thus too it will be seen that the notion of substance is a substratum of classes which are substrata not general of qualities which are substrata general or not general of odour. It must not be object ed that as smell and taste are not observed in a stone &c., both these qualities are not invariably present. For even though smell and taste accidentally be not observed in it, they are observed in its ashes. The self-same particles which were originally constitu- ent of the stones are also originally constituent of its ashes. Therefore the presence of these attributes is not merely occasional. If it be asked How then is a breeze fragrant, und water mixed with Karavella [a kind of gourd] bitter? This is no objec- tion, for the taste and smell of those are conditions produced by qftiwir 53 i rnn *raisiw 53 TO: sfizefraFnsRsrcrenrcsR: tjfermor 53 i *r*n fgfero: 3T50 HdTUIrir oh IW t?t filffl UrftfrrfrfH 53 ( 33 ) the eartli. There is a touch in the earth, neither hot nor cold, but temperate. Hence the characteristic of possessing a universality contained under the universal substance and being the general sub- stratum of the feeling of temperate warmth. Temperate warmth may be clearly explained by another description, that it is the touch of the earth ; another description is clearer, viz., that it is a species of touch residing in the flowers of the Sirisa, Lavangi &c. U. Qualities of water. ^qW^3?q ^TCT ?3T: ^T: II ^ II Aph. 2. Water is possessed of colour, taste, and touch and is fluid and viscid. 1 In water the colour is white, the taste sweet, the touch cold, the fluidity natural. Thus in the aphorism on water by the enumeration of five qualities, five characteristics of water are implied by the sage. The characteristics of water are that it is a class preceptibly contained under the universal substance and exist- ing in possession of colour riot the general substratum of bright and white but the general substratum of blue colour. It is a class perceptibly contained under the universal substance existing as something sweet and not existing as something bitter. It is pos- sessed of cold touch, of intrinsic fluidity and of viscidity. If there is no natural fluidity in ice, hail, &c., it must be understood that they belong to a class included under the universal substance and existing in the possession of intrinsic fluidity. The observation of blue colour in the sea, the water of the Kalindi (Yamuna) &c., is an illusion produced by the conditions of the substratum, for when it is tossed into the air it is perceived to be white. Though no taste be perceived in water, yet after eating astringent substances such as yellow myrobalan, sweetness is observed in water, for it is distinguished by that [taste.] The hot touch which appears in water through conjunction with the sun's rays &c., belongs proper- ly to the sun's rays &c. Though it might be asked, inasmuch as fluidity is not perceived in ice, hail &c., how it is possible that it should be contained in water, yet when the ice, hail &c., are melted with heat, it is proved sensibly to be water. The author of the Muktavali maintains that its fluidity is not derived from conjunc- tion with celestial light, but the appearance of solidity is in those cases an illusion. But some contend that through conjunction with celestial light there are produced in ice &c., successively from aqueous atoms an aggregate of two atoms, an aggregate of three atoms and so forth, and that such aggregates of two or more atoms are destitute of fluidity, and solid, and that accordingly the appearance of solidity is not an illusion. There is also viscidity in water, and that of clarified butter and the like is the viscidity of the water which is one of the ingredients. It is through the excess of this that clarified butter &c. is highly inflammable. That kind of conjunction which is called agglomeration, and which consists in meal, sand &c., becoming globular, is caused by viscidity accompanied with fluidity. Were it caused by fluidity alone, it would be produced from the fluidity of glass, gold &c. Nor is it produced by viscidity alone, for then it would follow that it would be produced also by thickened clarified butter &c. V. Qualities of light. at ^ Aph. 12. Also [air is a substance] from its possessing actions and qualities. 1 The words The aerial atom is a substance are to be supplied. It must be admitted that there exist in the primary atom the pos- session of qualities such as conjunction originative of combina- tions of two atoms &c., and the possession of action in conformity with those qualities. This is not a doubtful and undemonstrated assertion, but the means of establishing the existence of primary atoms are a mote in a sunbeam and the like, which mote is com- posed of parts because it is a substance that may be seen with the eye, like a water pot. The portions of a mote are like a half-jar [both integrate and integrant] since they are small portions com- posed also themselves of parts. Therefore as in earth &c. there is a primary atom, so it must be, allowed equally in the case of the air, since there are in each case similar series of portions and combina- tions of portions. V. >. Aph. 13. [Air], is said to be eternal because it does not in- here in any substance. 2 Air in its primary atomic character is to be- supplied. A substance is destroyed by the destruction of either its co-inherent or its non-coinherent cause. A primary atom, not being composed of grgtrer sren UTWTUIWST t ^ . . 5RH5SI t i 'WTfTtr 7753: I 11 ( 51 ) because it is a quality, like colour, &c. Thus it is proved by a general inference that there is another substance over and above the eight substances [earth, water, light, air, time, space, the soul, and the internal organ.] Sound is a quality because, like colour &c., it constitutes a class known by one external organ. It will be proved hereafter from its inhering without continuity in an eter- nal substance, that, like knowledge, it is not eternal. The sub- stance proved by the residuary method is eternal, since there is no proof of its being formed of parts, and universally diffused, inas- much as sound is perceived everywhere. U. II ^ II Aph. 28. The substantiality and eternity of ether are ex- plained by air. 1 To prove by analogy that the substance that has sound for its mark is a substance and eternal, it is stated that as air is eternal because it does not inhere in any substance, so also is ether, and that as air is a substance because it has qualities, so also is ether. U. 2 As the primary aerial atom is eternal because it does not in- here in any substance, and because it has qualities, so also is ether. V. Ether a unit. Hf5 WT5R II ^< Aph. 29. Its unity is explained by existence. 3 As being or existence is one, so also is ether only one. U. U 3 tl Aph. 30. Also because sound, its mark, is not particular, and because there does not exist a particular mark of ether. ST uzreRT froTeRTSiwaraiWcrrQ*i: n ( 52 ) 1 The unity of ether is established is to be understood. It being ascertained that it is an eternal substance, and that all sounds have that one only substratum, it follows that the hypothesis of another substratum would be superfluous. Moreover in the conception of ether sound is regarded as its mark, and this mark is not particular, and there is no other mark establishing its particu- larity or establishing its divisibility. It will be stated hereafter that though knowledge &c. are a non-particular mark of souls, yet there is a proof of the plurality of souls in another mark which is differ- ence of condition. U. 2 As plurality of souls is proved by the consideration that in one soul at one time an effect is produced in the form of pleasure, and in another soul an effect is produced in the form of pain, and " so there is a difference in two effects of soul, pleasure and pain ; so is it established, by the absence of proof to the contrary, and by the simplicity of the hypothesis, that ether is not manifold but exists as a unit ; inasmuch as there is no particularity in sound, which is the mark of ether, by which the multiplicity of ether might be proved, there being no other mark demonstrative of the multiplicity of ether. V. 31 U Aph. 31. In conformity with this is its individual unity. : inra VtS&RTSI it 8 *TOT sura W T H^IT t ii ( 53 ) 1 The individual unity of ether is proved by its unity, from the consideration of the universal presence of the attribute indivi- dual unity wherever unity exists. V. 2 The proof of its individual unity is that individual unity necessarily follows unity. The particle iti indicates the completion of the daily lesson. The scope of this section is to state the cha- racteristics of particular substances which possess qualities and are not objects of the cognition of the internal organ. Therefore the characteristics of earth, water, light, ether, and in connection with them that of the divine soul, are stated in this daily lesson. Accordingly the earth has been said to be possessed of fourteen qualities. These qualities are colour, taste, smell, touch, number, extension, individuality, conjunction, disjunction, highest and not highest generality, gravity, fluidity, and self-restitution. Exactly the same number of qualities, with the exception of smell, and with the addition of viscidity, belong to water. These same qualities with the exception of taste, smell, viscidity, and gravity, belong to light ; and with the exception of smell, taste, colour, gravity, visci- dity and fluidity, to air. With the addition of sound, number and the four following qualities "[extension, individuality, conjunction and disjunction,] belong to ether. Only number and the four following qualities belong to time and space. Number and the four following qualities, accompanied with highest and not highest generality, and impetus, belong to the internal organ. Number and the four following qualities, and knowledge, desire, and volition belong to God. ?ni3r*t also [arises] from knowledge and want of knowledge. 2 Internal doubt is produced "by knowledge and the want of knowledge. For instance, an astronomer predicts truh 7 , and pre- dicts untruly, eclipses, of the moon &c. Accordingly a 'doubt arises in his mind as to his knowledge, whether it be correct or not. Or knowledge is sometimes science, and sometimes not science, wanting demonstration ; and consequently a doubt arises with respect to something, whether, inasmuch as it is known, it exists or not. U. ^T^Wlfil *JT rf: *? ^55: II rl n Aph. 21. The object which is apprehended by hearing is Sound. 3 It is now established by means of a definition that sound is T wrarg i wsrfrr fs f? fcfsii sfgajTwri Hcrf?? tren HSFIT OT srran fig 9r5rf^%3JT 5F5lfe3ejfc[3JT 3UJWT Wolff* fT^T U vfirim ^rguTw^si sacreuTjiiffT i ^TW n&n sir ; i ( 67 ) possessed of properties. It is apprehended by hearing, that is, is an object of ordinary perception produced in the organ of hearing. The notion of sound, being of the same kind, is an object, and is therefore a class. The full definition, then, of sound is that it is a class included in the notion of a quality which exists as the object of common perception produced in the organ of hearing. V. Doubt with respect to souud answered. Aph. 22. Since the particular [class of sound] is perceived both in things homogeneous and in things heterogeneous [a doubt arises with respect to it.] 1 ' A doubt arises with respect to sound' is to be supplied, and by ' sound' must also be understood the notion or class of sound and the notion of its being apprehended by the organ of hearing. Since, then, the exclusion of particularity or difference of sound is percei v ed in things homogeneous, i. e. in the twenty-three qualities, and in things heterogeneous, i. e. in substances and actions, sound gives rise to a doubt respecting itseli, whether it be a quality, a substar, :o, or an action. U. 2 Some have maintained that, inasmuch as there exist names and notions of low and loud oounde, sound is a substance. The refutation of this opinion is here cojnmenced. Since there is per- u 3J 1 *: I ^irrfsrwr '5I53fclT3T 5Fra?hFfT war: n ( 68 ) ceived no particularity in the nature of sound apprehended in sound, both in the twenty-three things homogeneous, i. e. in the qualities, colour, &., and in things heterogeneous i. e. in substances and ac- tions, which are distinguished 'by belonging to the ^ class substance and other classes, 'a doubt arises' for these words are to be sup- pliedwhether sound be a substance or no. The knowledge of the existence in the nature of sound of particularity, in the form of exclusion from that of which both alternatives are distinguished, gives rise to such a doubt. V. Aph. 23. Since it inheres in one substance only, [sound] is not a substance. 1 That of which one substance is. the substratum, inheres in one substance only. Inasmuch, therefore, as no substance has only one cause of inhesion, sound, since it differs in properties from substance, is not a substance. U. 8 The opinion that sound is a substance is here rejected. Sound is not a substance, for it inheres in one substance, i. e. resides in one only ; whereas it is well known that no substance abides in one other substance only. V. u SB n Aph. 24. Now is it an action, for it is invisible. 3 Sound is not an action, for the perception of which sound is the object is not visual, i. e. is produced by some other external or- gan than the eye. The class sound, therefore, does not belong to : u 31533* ZGOfQ rceifT I 3I53T sf SfcUH ( 69 ) action, because like the class taste &c. it exists as a class not in- cluded in things visually perceived. U. ynw SHT merit: sfnifa: HTOWW u su u Aph. 25. The transiency of [sound] which is a quality, is a property common also to actions. 1 It may be objected that sound is an action, since like throw- ing upwards &c. it comes rapidly to an end. The answer is as fol- lows : Transiency is rapid destruction. This in the class quality is dependent, like qualities [such as pleasure and pain, and the like], on rapid occurrence of being and ceasing to be. It is, there- fore, only a property common also to actions, but not the whole es- sence of action. Rapid destruction, which you advance as an argument, is found in other instances besides action, as is shown by the conception of duality by pleasure and paiii, &c. U. II rS II Aph. 26. Since there is no mark of [sound as] existing [before utterance, it does not so exist.] 2 Meeting the objection : Let it be allowed that sound is a quality ; yet it is not a mark of the existence of ether ; for it would justify the inference of the existence of ether, only if it were an effect of ether ; whereas it is eternal, its occasionally not beino- observed being due to the non-existence of something to make it known, it is stated : If sound existed previously to its '5153ft sR ?Frr 3J53T JTH^TSTT ^raTaTSKnifajpy ^T3iTW Fl zm nfs ?rca *n Fn?T fo^r fa?a sa i nfe fi 3^iT?:iirTfj urm ^53 win i gT^^ms^sn^T wssT3 ffmqurfer nwrf? Bra iffl II ( 70 ) utterance, there would be a mark or another proof of it as an exist- ing thing. There is no proof of Si'ind in the case of its net being heard. It is not therefore manifested as- pre-existent. U. 1 The doctrine of the Mimansakas that sound is not produced, but eternal ; but that it is sometimes unperceived because there is nothing to make it known, is rejected. Because there is no mark of sound as existing, means because there exists no proof establish, ; ng the eternity of sound. V. n xs u Aph. 27. Since [sound] differs from the eternal [it does not exist previously to utterance.] 2 A difference is perceived between sound and the eternal. For it is inferred by what is spoken, that Chaitra, Maitra and others exist even when concealed, because Chaitra speaks ; but it is never inferred from that which is made known, as a water pot and the like, that that which makes known, such as a lamp and the like, exists. Therefore sound is produced, but is not made known as previously existent. U. 3 After the statement of the absence of a proof, a proof of the contr. .ry is stated. Sound is not eternal because it differs from the eternal, i. e. because it ceases to be : foi that it ceases to be is established by the evidence of sense. V. Aph. 28. It is not eternal, for it has a cause. ( 71 ) 1 Because its production ' _>m a cause is observed, is to be sup- plied. For a sound is observed becoming manifest by the conjunc- tion of a drum and drumstick, and the like. It is, therefore, not eter- nal, because it is produced. Or 'for it has a cause' implies that the reason is that it possesses a cause. U. 2 Sound is rot eternal, because it has a cause. For eternal things have no causes. V. II ^ II Aph. 29. This is not unproved by change. 3 It must not be argued that there" is no proof that sound has a cause, since, inasmuch as it is lo-id of soft, a change is perceived. For a loud or soft sound is perceived in consequence of the hard- ness or softness of the beating 1 of a drum with a drumstick, and the like. But the loud ness &c. of that which is manifested, is not dependent on the loudness &c. of that which makes known. From its cause or change, therefore, it is inferred that it is pro- duced, not that its existence is made known. U. 4 That sound has a cause is not disproved by its change or existence as loud, soft, &c. For in the absence of hardness or soft- ness in the beating of a drum with a drumstick and the like, there rr wx straws HOT itTrcrfcmTGfTsfa^rT wfirfcT H 2 3T53 sfsTfH: SRTUUrT: RT^5R?nfefcf ST^fJ T fii alawaifewra: 5155 ( 72 ) could not be observed to exist loudness or softness of sound. It is impossible that loudness, softness, &c. should exist in sound as a consequence of the loudness, softness, &c. of that which manifests it. It must therefore be admitted even by an opponent that sound is produced from a cause, this cause being the beating &c. of a drum with a drumstick, &c. V. n 3 n Aph. 30. Since in its manifestation there would be a de- fect [sound is not manifested.] 1 If sound were manifested, an unalterable relation of evol- vent and e volute in things co-extensive and apprehended by the same sense would be wrongly conceived to exist. But no such un- alterable relation is observed to exist among such objects. If this be not assented to, it will follow that when one letter (as ka) is manifested, all letters will be manifested. The objection that an unalterable relation of that which manifests and that which is manifested is observed to exist between the existent, a man, and a Brahman, which are co-extensive, and are manifested according to their diverse natures, places, aud origins is invalid. For they are not co-extensive, for the extension of the human and the Brah- manical, is not so great as that of the existent. U. : u 3a consequence, be no fruition of the results of injuries and the like done therein, for Maitra does not experience the results of the evil done by Cbaitra ; and actions would ac- cordingly be lost, and there would come to pass events not determined by former acts. U. sKizhr ^rairi ii U n o v Aph. 5. Because there would be consciousness in the effects. 2 Anticipating the objection that consciousness exists in a mi- err ?TOT fg ?T ^ nrm n =rr i afe srdTJcRroSr ^wi i?isrf ( 80 ) nute degree in the causes of the body, and is manifest in the boi'y, and that there is , not therefore the absence of a prior existence of the quality in the causes, nor the impossibility of unanimity, it is stated that if consciousness existed in the atoms which are the pri- mary causes of the body, it would exist also in the water-pots and like products or effects which derive their origin from it ; and also consciousness would exist in products such as water-pots and the like, because the particular attributes of the earth pervade all terres- trial existence. But consciousness is not observed to exist in these products. U. 31313153 II S II Aph. 6. And because it is not known [that any minute degree of consciousness exists in products of matter.] 1 In anticipation of the objection that consciousness may exist in an inappreciable degree in water-pots and other material products, it is stated that inasmuch as it is not known by any kind of evi- dence, there is no consciousness in a water-jar and the like. Other- wise it might have to be admitted that a hare has horns, if we are to allow what is unwarranted by any form of evidence. For by no kind of evidence is it known that there exists consciousness in a water-jar and the like. U. 2 ' It is not known,' means ' because there is no form of evi- dence conveying the notion of consciousness as existing in the va- rious products.' The word 'and' implies that such an hypothesis is iTOT g gs u ( 81 ) unnecessary. It is more fitting to conceive some one other sub- stance as the subject of consciousness than to imagine a varied con- sciousness existing in various portions of matter. V. e II Aph. 7. The means of proof is something else [than has been supposed] : this is not a valid argument. 1 It may be urged : It has been, affirmed that a ruling soul is inferred from the organ of hearing and other instruments. This is not a legitimate inference, for the auditory and other organs are neither identical with, nor produced by, the soul ; and unless one of these alternatives be admitted, there is no proof of any inseparable co-existence of these organs and the soul ; and unless there be such inseparable co-existence, there can be no valid inference of this kind. To this it is replied that tl^e means of proof can but be something else than that which is to be proved. It cannot be identical with, that which has to be proved, for were it so it would follow that there would be no difference between the means of proof and the thing proved. A means of proof constituted by identity with that which is to be proved, is no means of proof, is invalid as an argu- ment. U. ii c ii Aph. 8. One thing cannot be an argument [of the existence of another thing with which it is wholly unconnected.] 2 It might be asked by an objector how quality not produced H3?*lf?raT ( 82 ) by that which is to be proved can warrant any inference ; for were this the case smoke &c., might prove the existence of an ass &c., or as well as that of fire. It is therefore stated that one thing or kind of substance, cannot be an argument for the existence of ano- ther thing or another kind of substance. Thus smoke, &c. if the existence of ass is to be proved, would be fallaciously adduced as a means of proof, being void of invariable concomitance with asses, &c. But with reference to fire &c. it would not be so, for in that case there would exist a concomitance. In the present case there must be a concomitance, there is not merely an accidental re- lation. V. wiFTOWen^ishmaTFqfgnfu ^ u