[Advaita-l] anumAna-pramANa

[Kuntimaddi Sadananda]

Sudhansuji - PraNAms
Can you explain what you this little bit more so that people like me also can understand what exactly it means? 
Hari Om!Sada

 

    On Friday, October 18, 2024 at 08:30:52 AM EDT, Sudhanshu Shekhar via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:  
 
 Hari Om,

anumAna pramANa is defined as anumiti-pramA-karaNa. And that karaNa is
vyApti-jnAna. As VedAnta ParibhAshA defines: अनुमितिकरणमनुमानम्..
अनुमितिकरणं च व्याप्तिज्ञानम् ।

So, anumAna-pramANa is vyApti-jnAna.

However, the siddhAnta as per VivaraNa seems to have a different view.
Instead, it is the "sAdhana-darshana-coupled-with-vyApti-samskAra" which is
the anumAna-pramANa. In prathama varNaka, VivaraNa, page 99, DakshiNAmUrti
MaTh edition, says the following:

Opponent: ननु लिङ्गदर्शनं व्याप्तिस्मृतिश्च लिङ्गिज्ञानकारणं, न संस्कारः
इति. [linga-darshana (smoke-darshana) and vyApti-smriti are the kAraNa in
lingi-jnAna (sAdhya-jnAna/anumiti-pramA). The vyApti-samskAra is not the
kAraNa.]

SiddhAntI: नेत्याह--संस्कारानुद्बोधे इति।। ज्ञानद्वययौगपद्याभावादित्यर्थः।
[No. Because, two jnAna cannot be present simultaneously.]

PanchapAdikA says:दृश्यते हि *लिङ्गज्ञानसंस्कारयोः *सम्भूय
लिङ्गिज्ञानोत्पादनं.. तस्मात् *लिङ्गदर्शनमेव सम्बन्धज्ञानसंस्कारमुद्बोध्य
तत्सहितं* लिङ्गिज्ञानं जनयतीति वक्तव्यम् ।

Therefore, as Tattva-Deepana puts it: तस्माद्
*व्याप्ति-संस्कार-सहित-लिङ्गदर्शने
*लिङ्गिज्ञान-जनकत्वं वक्तव्यम्।

Other texts such as VivaraNa Prameya Sangraha, page 129, Achyuta
GranthamAlA edition and VivaraNa-upanyAsa, page 78, DakshiNAMUrti MaTh
edition also distinguish the view of VedAnta paribhAshA vis-a-vis VivaraNa.

Basically, anumAna-pramANa is not vyApti-jnAna but
*व्याप्ति-संस्कार-सहित-लिङ्गज्ञान.*

I had been (blissfully) unaware of this subtle distinction. Learned members
may share their view on this aspect.

Regards.
Sudhanshu Shekhar.
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