Padarthadharmasamgraha and Nyayakandali
by Ganganatha Jha | 1915 | 250,428 words
The English translation of the Padarthadharmasamgraha of Prashastapada including the commentary called the Nyayakandali of Shridhara. Although the Padartha-dharma-sangraha is officially a commentary (bhashya) on the Vaisheshika-Sutra by Kanada, it is presented as an independent work on Vaisesika philosophy: It reorders and combines the original Sut...
Text 65
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Text 65:
सुखदूःखेच्छाद्वेषप्रयत्नाश्चासमानजात्यारम्भकाः ॥ ६५ ॥
sukhadūḥkhecchādveṣaprayatnāścāsamānajātyārambhakāḥ || 65 ||
Text (65):—Pleasure, Pain, Desire, Aversion and Effort are productive of their unlikes.
Commentary: The Nyāyakandalī of Śrīdhara.
(English rendering of Śrīdhara’s commentary called Nyāyakandalī or Nyāyakaṇḍalī from the 10th century)
That is to say, Pleasure is productive of Desire, Pain of Aversion, Desire and Aversion of Effort, and Effort of Action.
Objection; “The Pleasure of the son must be regarded as producing its like, in the shape of the Pleasure of the father; otherwise, there could be no explaining of the delight that the father feels at his son’s happiness.”
Reply: There is not much in this; the process in such cases is that the father notices certain marks in the face and general countenance of his son, from which he infers the existence of Pleasure in him; and then there is a Pleasure produced in himself. And in the production of this Pleasure, the cause is not the son’s pleasure, which does not last all this time; in fact its origin must be the purely inferential knowledge of the son’s Pleasure.