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

[V Subrahmanian]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 7:39 AM Venkatraghavan S via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Yes, it only applies to vyAvahArika abhAva, not tucCha. Shankaracharya is
> saying it is adhikaraNAtmakam. But Sudhanshu ji is extending that to say
> that kAraNatva abhAva also is bhAvAtmakam only.
>
> If you look at the bhAShya, shankarAchArya uses the
> term चतुर्विधानामभावानाम् - asat is not an abhAva that belongs to any of
> the four - prAgabhAva, pradhvamsAbhAva, atyantAbhAva or anyonyAbhAva. The
> naiyyAyika does not accept that asat falls within atyantAbhAva. He alleges
> that asat cannot be the viShaya of the "nAsti" shabda prayoga itself. The
> abhAva of asat has neither a pratiyogi nor an anuyogi.
>
> Now kAraNatva of mRt is mithyA, but the kAraNatva of shashashRnga is not
> mithyA but asat only. Similarly kAraNatva abhAva of a shashashRnga is asat
> only. Why? Because both the pratiyogi (kAraNatva) and anuyogi
> (shashashRnga) for such an abhAva are asat.
>
> There is this famous verse:
> एष  वन्ध्यासुतो  याति  खपुष्पकृतशेखरः ।
> मृगतृष्णाम्भसि  स्नातः  शशशृङ्गधनुर्धरः ॥
>

The verse is presented  in the Taittiriya Bhashya this way:

‘मृगतृष्णाम्भसि स्नातः खपुष्पकृतशेखरः । एष वन्ध्यासुतो याति
शशशृङ्गधनुर्धरः’ इतिवत् शून्यार्थतैव..

regards
subbu

> This son of a barren woman is arriving, wearing skyflowers in his hair,
> having bathed in the waters of the mirage and holding a bow made of a
> hare's horn.
>
> Here walking, having flowers in the hair, bathing, and holding a bow are
> all vyAvahArika things. However in association with tucCha they are all
> asat. Similarly kAraNatva / kAraNatva abhAva can be mithyA, but in
> association with asat, they are asat only.
>
> Regards
> Venkatraghavan
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