Vaisheshika-sutra with Commentary
by Nandalal Sinha | 1923 | 149,770 words | ISBN-13: 9789332869165
The Vaisheshika-sutra 7.2.27, English translation, including commentaries such as the Upaskara of Shankara Mishra, the Vivriti of Jayanarayana-Tarkapanchanana and the Bhashya of Chandrakanta. The Vaisheshika Sutras teaches the science freedom (moksha-shastra) and the various aspects of the soul (eg., it's nature, suffering and rebirth under the law of karma). This is sutra 7 (‘combination is different from...’) contained in Chapter 2—Of Number, Separateness, Conjunction, etc.—of Book VII (of the examination of attributes and of combination).
Sūtra 7.2.27 (Combination is different from...)
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of Vaiśeṣika sūtra 7.2.27:
तत्त्वम्भावेन ॥ ७.२.२७ ॥
tattvambhāvena || 7.2.27 ||
dravyatva-guṇatva-pratiṣedhaḥ—negation or exclusion of substance-ness and attribute-ness, (in or from Combination); bhāvena—by existence; vyākhyātaḥ—explained.
27. The negation of Substance-ness and Attribute-ness (in Combination) is explained by Existence.
Commentary: The Upaskāra of Śaṅkara Miśra:
(English rendering of Śaṅkara Miśra’s commentary called Upaskāra from the 15th century)
[Full title: Combination is different from Substance, Attribute, Action, Genus, and Species]
By way of proving its difference from the five beginning with Substance (i.e., Substance, Attribute, Action, Genus, and Species), he says:
[Read sūtra 7.2.27 above]
‘Bhāvaḥ’, means Existence. As Existence is not identical with substance, etc., being cognised by a different form of understanding, so combination also is different from the same Substance, etc., ‘Dravyatva-guṇatva’ is an indication; Action-ness, etc., also should be understood.—27.