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 109
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Text 109:
सम्भवोऽप्यविनाभावित्वाद् अनुमानम् एव ॥ १०९ ॥
sambhavo'pyavinābhāvitvād anumānam eva || 109 ||
Text (109): Probability also, following from invariable concomitance, is a form of Inference—(IX-ii-5).
Commentary: The Nyāyakandalī of Śrīdhara.
(English rendering of Śrīdhara’s commentary called Nyāyakandalī or Nyāyakaṇḍalī from the 10th century)
Some people hold that the cognition of a thousand gives rise to the cognition of the hundred; and this is due to a distinct means of knowledge, in the form of ‘Probability,’ based upon the probable existence of the ‘hundred’ in the ‘thousand.’ In opposition to this view the author has declared that this is case of Inference; as ‘thousand’ is invariably concomitant with ‘hundred,’ as this latter always precedes the former; and hence the cognition of ‘hundred’ from that of ‘thousand’ cannot but be regarded as purely inferential.