An English translation with sanskrit text of the Yogasara-sangraha / translated by Gangânâtha Jha.

  • Vijnanabhiksu
Date:
1894
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Credit: An English translation with sanskrit text of the Yogasara-sangraha / translated by Gangânâtha Jha. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    impossible for the ear to catch a particular order of letters—such as Gha followed by ta—because each letter lasting only for an instant, their nnision is impossible; and the only proper explanation left open is to explain the impression left by each letter and the memory as inniressed by these,—both located in the internal organ—as auxilliaries to the internal organ {i. e. the Intellect) [which would thus be able to comprehend the Sphota in its full.form.] Objection: We may apply the name joarfa Necessity ot ™plyi“g “f postulating a connoting the special meaning, to S^hecoTti- discloser of the Sphota, viz. tueut letters, the last letter accompanied by a ^ particular set ot letters ;—and so have done with a supernumary Sphota altogether;— according to the maxim which declares that when the action of the effect can be done by the cause, there is no necessity of postulating the separate existence of the effect. This is what is declared by the Sankhya-Sutra ; “ There is no such sound as Sphota, because of cognition (of ordinary sound) and non-cognition (of Sphota) ” \_Sanhhya-Siitra V—57]. The singleness of the word too can be explained by the singleness of the last letter as characterised by the particular set of preceding letters. AVe repAyioihe above : Your method ofreason- Reply to the above: The ne¬ cessity of such afsumption of bphota. ing strikes at the root of all wholes (for the functions of all these could be explained by their constituent parts). Because in accordance witli the maxim that you have just (quoted,
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