[Advaita-l] Shabda-ajanya-vritti-vishayatva of tuchch

Venkatraghavan S agnimile at gmail.com
Mon Dec 27 21:22:28 EST 2021


Namaste ji,
Yes, the anumAna-s presented are pUrva paksha to justify why an alternative
definition of drShyatva as
सप्रकारकवृत्तिविषयत्वम् needs to be given.

Regards
Venkatraghavan

On Mon, 27 Dec 2021, 22:12 H S Chandramouli, <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste Sudhanshu Ji,
>
> The quote from the tIka you have presented in your initial post
>
> <<  तुच्छं वृत्तिविषयः, व्यवह्रियमाणत्वात्, घटादिवत्।
> तुच्छं न क्षणिकम्, अकारणत्वात्, ब्रह्मवत् >>
>
> actually  reads in full, in the tIka, as
>
> <<  ननूक्तशब्देनेव तुच्छं वृत्तिविषयः; व्यवह्रियमाणत्वात्,
> तुच्छं न क्षणिकम्; अकारणत्वात्, इत्य्द्यनुमानेनापि  तुच्छं  ज्ञाप्यते,
> तत्राह--*यद्वेति ।* *कश्चिद्धर्म  इति* । ग्राह्य इति शेषः। >>.
>
> I would understand from this that the tIka presents the anumAna  stated
> above as a possible  pUrva paksha,  and mentions that the same is refuted
> in Advaita Siddhi itself by the further clarification  on the previous
> definition  namely <<  शब्दाजन्यवृत्तिविषयत्वमेव दृश्यत्वम्  >>  by the
> statement
>
> <<  सप्रकारकवृत्तिविषयत्वम् >>.
>
> Regards
>
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 4:28 PM Sudhanshu Shekhar <
> sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Namaste,
>>
>> The refined definition is सप्रकारकवृत्तिविषयत्वम्
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> On Mon, 27 Dec, 2021, 4:22 pm H S Chandramouli, <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Namaste Sudhanshu Ji,
>>>
>>> I am referring back to your initial post and copying here
>>>
>>> << Having said this - when the discussion starts subsequently with यद्वा
>>> --
>>> the tIkA presents couple of anumAna to show that tuchchha is vishaya of
>>> anumAna-janya-vritti also and is not merely the vishaya of
>>> shabda-janya-vritti. And then goes on to refine the definition of
>>> drishyatva. The anunAna are -
>>>
>>> तुच्छं वृत्तिविषयः, व्यवह्रियमाणत्वात्, घटादिवत्।
>>> तुच्छं न क्षणिकम्, अकारणत्वात्, ब्रह्मवत्।  >>
>>>
>>> Which is the refined  definition of drishyatva you are referring to.
>>> Please clarify
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>


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