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 70
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Text 70:
गुरुत्वद्रवत्ववेगप्रयत्नधर्माधर्मसम्योगविशेषाः क्रियाहेतवः ॥ ७१ ॥
gurutvadravatvavegaprayatnadharmādharmasamyogaviśeṣāḥ kriyāhetavaḥ || 71 ||
Text (69):—Gravity, Fluidity, Speed, Effort, Virtue, Vice and Conjunction of a particular kind, are the causes of actions.
Commentary: The Nyāyakandalī of Śrīdhara.
(English rendering of Śrīdhara’s commentary called Nyāyakandalī or Nyāyakaṇḍalī from the 10th century)
From Gravity follows the action of falling; from Fluidity, flowing; from speed, the consecutive actions of the shot arrow; from Effort, the actions of the body, limbs &c.; from Virtue and Vice the actions of fire &c.; and from the particular kind of Conjunction, in the form of moving and striking, is also produced action, as will be explained later on.